Plant Based Treaty

We call upon the University of Melbourne Community to endorse the Plant-Based Treaty!

The Plant-Based Treaty is a global movement to combat Climate change by addressing how our current food systems are driving catastrophic environmental destruction. The Plant-based treaty is a grassroots initiative creating bottom-up pressure for the negotiation of a global Plant-Based Treaty as a companion to the UNFCCC Paris Agreement. Modelled on the Fossil Fuel Treaty, the Plant-Based Treaty aims to put food systems at the forefront of combating the climate crisis to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture and to promote a shift towards healthier, sustainable plant-based food systems.

As our generation faces escalating climate disasters and rising environmental destruction, it is more pressing than ever for the Universities to lead the necessary cultural shift towards plant-based food systems that doesn’t cost the health of our planet.

We are calling on the University of Melbourne Community to endorse the Plant-Based Treaty and to come together to transition UniMelb to a Plant-Based University, modelled on the success of the Plant-Based University campaign in Europe. We are encouraging students, staff and university groups, clubs and societies to endorse the Plant Based Treaty and start the transition to plant-based food systems that will create a more sustainable future for us and our planet.