Cindy Isenhour "If food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world" - Zitouni Ould Dada, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) It was not too long ago that our efforts to mitigation climate change seemed to focus almost exclusively on direct energy flows (efficiency gains, energy conservation, etc) across a range of seemingly separate sectors (transport, industry, etc). As an anthropologist deeply interested in the cultural logics that shape our understandings of and responses to environmental issues, I have observed —with great fascination —a significant shift in this thinking over the course of my career. Yesterday, at a UN Plenary Side Event on the Sustainable Development Goal 12 ("ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns" ), panelists demonstrated a more recent mitigation logic—one that moves beyond a focus on production efficiencies and breaks down sectoral boundaries. The panel en
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