Highlights
HIGHLIGHTS
Vegan Society staff talk to Labour MP Tan Dhesi about sustainable food production
Championing veganism for sustainability
Science Museum COP26 Green Zone on November 12, which is open to the public. Here we will be promoting Plate Up for the Planet and outlining the changes in policy needed to fix the broken food system. You can attend our virtual COP26 exhibit throughout the duration of the conference at ukcop26.org. To add your voice to the sustainability conversation, and help us to promote veganism for the good of the planet, we have a pack of environmentally-themed placards to be printed at home plus images to be shared on your social media at vegansociety.com/take-action/ campaigns/climate-emergency.
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The momentous UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, takes place this year in Glasgow from 1–12 November. Coinciding as it does with World Vegan Day, this is an unmissable opportunity to get veganism on the agenda and highlight the fact that we cannot tackle the climate emergency without changing our diets. To kick off the conference and create a buzz around our COP26 activities, we are running fun activation events on November 1 – World Vegan Day – outside the SECC and Glasgow Science Centre. We are also hosting a stand in the Political party Buchanan Galleries shopping conferences centre throughout the whole This year we have taken the conference, where we will vegan message to political encourage members of the party conferences in a bid public to sign up to the Plate to get vegan solutions on Up for The Planet 7-day the political agenda. Our challenge. Campaigns team attended the In collaboration with Labour, Conservative and Green Bluedot, The Vegan Society are Party conferences, highlighting running a three-day festival at the environmental benefits vegan venues across Glasgow, of vegan diets and speaking to rs featuring live music, comedy, panel ta parliamentarians, councillors, and party n discussions and more. Visitors who da t th members about the need to transform have signed up to the Plate Up challenge e La bour conference our food and farming systems. will receive free drinks coupons on the Our Senior Campaigns and Policy Officer door. Tim Thorpe spoke at a panel event alongside MP Kerry On Saturday 6 November, join us for the ‘People’s McCarthy and Baroness Jones of Whitchurch. The event, March’, where we are hoping over 100,000 demonstrators will hosted by Labour’s environment campaign SERA, focused on come together to bring awareness to the climate emergency. the need to support dietary change in government policy. We are also hosting an exhibition stand in the Glasgow Issue 4 2021 The Vegan | 3
