A Planetary Health Food Environment?

A Planetary Health Food Environment?

In-person Business Forum dinner meeting

In 2025, our Business Forum community is exploring what a good food environment in 2030 looks like and what is needed to get there. In this final dinner meeting of 2025, we will ask ‘how can future food environments best promote healthy, sustainable diets?’

Current food environments are contributing to dietary inequalities. As Food Foundation’s The Broken Plate 2025 showed, more than one third of supermarket promotions on food and non-alcoholic drinks are for ‘unhealthy items’, whilst over a quarter of places to buy food in England are fast-food outlets (rising to nearly 1 in 3 in the most deprived fifth of areas). Businesses producing, selling and promoting food have a critical role to play in providing better options for the public.

As part of the UK Government’s 10 Year Health Plan, large retailers including supermarkets are to be set a new standard “to make the average shopping basket of goods sold slightly healthier.” Does this go far enough in pursuit of healthy, sustainable diets? What else is needed? And with EAT Lancet 2.0 providing an update on the original Planetary Health Diet, this is a timely moment to explore implications for food businesses.

This in-person dinner meeting in central London will provide an opportunity for participants to:

• Learn more about EAT Lancet 2.0’s latest Planetary Health Diet
• Explore implications for food and farming businesses and how to overcome current barriers to healthy, sustainable diets for all
• Consider whether and how the role for food businesses needs to change in the future
• Explore practical steps and collaborative opportunities to change food environments to better reflect the Planetary Health Diet

Speakers include Dr Marco Springmann (Professorial Research Fellow in Climate Change, Food Systems and Health, Institute for Global Health, University College London; Senior Researcher on Environment and Health, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; and EAT Lancet 2.0 Commissioner) and Katharine Jenner (Director of the Obesity Health Alliance and registered nutritionist). The discussion will be chaired by Dan Crossley, Executive Director of the Food Ethics Council.

Please register via the ‘sign up’ button*

*Note: this event is for members of our Business Forum. If you’re not a member and are interested in finding out more about how to become a member, please contact Dan via dan@foodethicscouncil.org.