ClimatePlate
ClimatePlate
From 2 June, particularly climate-friendly dishes will be highlighted with the KlimaTeller logo in the canteens of the Studierendenwerk Bremen.
The aim of the Germany-wide KlimaTeller project is to highlight particularly climate-friendly dishes in the canteens, thus promoting conscious consumption decisions and, at best, further reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the area of communal catering.
Thanks to climate-friendly ingredients, a dish labeled as a KlimaTeller causes at least 50% less greenhouse gas emissions than a comparable average dish. A presentation of the probable greenhouse gas balance of all dishes is deliberately omitted due to the necessary use of imprecise approximate, average and literature values. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection as part of the National Climate Protection Initiative.
Kathrin Moosdorf, Senator for the Environment, Climate and Science, commented: "Our diet is responsible for more than a third of global CO₂ emissions. What we eat therefore plays a significant role in climate protection. Younger people in particular are already very aware of this. The KlimaTeller helps them to find the most climate-friendly menu from the wide range on offer in the canteens. The Studierendenwerk Bremen is thus putting climate protection on the plate, every day."
"The KlimaTeller project is another milestone in our long-standing sustainability efforts in university catering. These begin with forward-looking menu design and demand-oriented production. It also involves the further processing of food and our zero waste plate, which we use to offer unsold food at the end of lunchtime at a low price. Now the KlimaTeller is being added as a further sustainability measure. This illustrates our commitment to implementing practical climate protection measures wherever possible. The topic of sustainability will continue to be the focus of our activities and offers in the future," says Hauke Kieschnick, Managing Director of Studierendenwerk Bremen.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC of the United Nations) has introduced the global warming potential to assess the effects of various greenhouse gases. This index compares the warming effect of a greenhouse gas over a defined period of time with that ofCO2. Methane, for example, has a 28-fold higher climate impact thanCO2, even though it remains in the atmosphere for a shorter period of time. Nitrous oxide even exceedsCO2 by a factor of almost 300 in its effect on the climate. Both gases originate mainly from agriculture, through the use of nitrogen fertilizers and livestock farming. To make the various greenhouse gases comparable, their emissions can be converted intoCO2 equivalents and summarized, labeled asCO2e.