Forensic biologist Dr Mark Benecke for Plant Based Treaty
What is the Plant Based Treaty?
We are urging individuals, groups, businesses and cities to endorse this call to action and put pressure on national governments to negotiate an international Plant Based Treaty as a companion to the UNFCCC Paris Agreement.
The treaty would put food systems at the heart of combating the climate crisis, aiming to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture, to promote a shift to more healthy, sustainable plant-based diets and to actively reverse damage done to planetary functions, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
The Plant Based Treaty has three core principles:
Redirect
An active transition away from animal-based food systems to plant-based systems
Relinquish
No land use change, ecosystem degradation or deforestation for animal agriculture
Restore
Actively restoring key ecosystems, particularly restoring forests and rewilding landscapes