your Excellency Minister Yasmin fuad your Excellency Minister Kai Mikan Secretary General Karen Elman excellencies dear colleagues and Friends our food systems are harming the health of people and Planet Food Systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions and account for almost onethird of the global burden of disease transforming food systems is therefore Essential by shifting towards healthier Diversified and more plant-based diets if Food Systems delivered healthy diets for all we could save 8 Million Lives per year Nordic countries have been Trail Blazers for many policy breakthroughs including for linking climate and nutrition thank you
for your leadership in this area and for organizing this discussion to share experiences and Lessons Learned who is committed to supporting countries to develop and Implement policies to improve diets and fight climate change last year under the leadership of the Egyptian cop 27 presidency wh and our partners launched ion the initiative on climate action and nutrition the icon Baseline report currently shows low integration of climate and nutrition in policies in funding mechanisms and particularly in the private sector I'm therefore very pleased that over 130 countries have signed the cop 28 UAE Declaration on climate and
health together we can protect and promote the health of both people and Planet I thank you
