As part of the Policy and External Relations team at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Oliver Camp works at the intersection of human health and environmental sustainability in food systems. Through GAIN’s programmes and policy engagement, he focuses on integrated approaches to nutrition and climate, including through the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition and the Food and Land Use Coalition. He has a background in the private sector and consultancy, always with a focus on nutrition, health, climate, and environmental sustainability.

Matheus Alves Zanella is Senior Advisor for Global Fora at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GA), a strategic alliance of 30 philanthropic organizations working together to transform food systems towards more equitable, sustainable and diverse outcomes. He is responsible for coordinating GA's strategy in international food negotiations, such as Climate, Biodiversity and Land COPs, G20, UNFSS, the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, and the CFS. He has a PhD in Geography and Sustainable Development. In the past, he co-lead action-research programs on food systems around the globe and built a parallel career as chef serving sustainable food in his home country, Brazil.

Alessia Mortara is The Food and Land Use Coalition’s Head of International Policy Engagement. She has over 10 years of experience in the food policy space leading advocacy efforts to influence legislation as well as providing technical assistance to governments on evidence-informed policy design. Her work has had global reach, spanning from Europe to Latin America and Africa. At FOLU, Alessia’s work involves advancing our global policy engagements as well as working with our country teams to support their national efforts.

The first United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP1) was held in 1995 in Berlin, thirty years ago. Since then, the scale and attention paid to this annual conference has expanded, along with goals for, and expectations of it. The conference has seen many landmark negotiations and agreements, and, as evidence about the drivers and impact of climate change has grown, the discussions in this space have evolved.

But has this evolution progressed in an effective direction? And what about food? How have food systems been integrated (or excluded) from these climate-focused discussions over time?

In this TABLE event, we will look back on what has been achieved in advancing sustainable food systems over the last thirty years, and what role COP discussions have played here, in raising food’s profile or in incentivising actual progress.

As for the present and the future, what needs to be achieved this year at COP30? And where do we hope we will be in 30 years’ time? How might we get there, and what can future COPs do to help make this happen?

Join our panel of thinkers and doers at this TABLE event, who bring their expertise and reflections to bear on the history, present and future of these international climate negotiations and the evolving food system landscape.

• Frontline Food Leaders at COP30 (Global Alliance for the Future of Food)
• Has Food Really Been Missing at COP until now? (Oliver Camp)
• Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty and People-Centered Climate Action (Brazilian Government)
• Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transformation
• What will be served on the table of COP30? (Sustainable Food Sourcing at COP30)
• Resilient Agriculture Investment for net Zero land degradation (RAIZ)
• Urban Laboratory of Public Food Policies (LUPPA)
• Will animal welfare be COP28's sacrificial lamb? (TABLE)
• Could COP30 be a game-changer for food systems? Brazil’s moment to lead (Food and Land Use Coalition)
• Our Shared Perspective on Animal Agriculture & Aquatic Food Systems (Global Alliance for the Future of Food)
• COP30 Brazil: Putting animals at the heart of climate action (World Federation for Animals and Mercy for Animals)