Making climate action simple and delicious
The Coolfood Pledge helps dining facilities – from hotels and restaurants to universities, schools, hospitals, and workplace cafeterias – cut their food-related greenhouse gas emissions by increasing and improving their plant-forward menu options.
Why pledge?
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Coolfood is smart business
Customers are demanding these meal options, and signatories report saving money on food costs
- 71% of consumers aged 18-54 are open to plant-based eating, indicating they are at least “somewhat likely” to eat plant-based meat and/or plant-based dairy in the future."
- Nearly 35% of customers say they are willing to pay higher prices for plant-forward menu options
- Saved $60,000 per year - UC San Diego Health System
- Saved $0.59 per meal - NYC Health + Hospitals
- Even relatively small purchasing changes are yielding impressive results in the form of reduced GHG emissions for our signatories.
“I think in pounds of each item per meal, so this tool is very helpful for me to slowly transition away from those that negatively impact our goal without the customer even noticing.”
– Chef at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Coolfood is healthy for people & planet
- Increasing plants and reducing meat in the diet can have a variety of health benefits, lowering the risk for diet-related disease and associated health care costs.
- Plant-forward eating also benefits the environment. Plant-based proteins require less water and land to produce, and they have a significantly lower carbon impact.
- The Coolfood Pledge is an opportunity for health care facilities to reduce their food-related greenhouse gas emissions and tie their health-promoting, plant-centered meal efforts to climate change.
175+ hospitals across the country are already seeing resultsCoolfood Pledge health care signatories are racing toward the finish line – and several hospitals and health systems have already met or even surpassed the goal of 38% per plate greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. |
“The Coolfood Pledge seemed like a great way to both promote what we were already doing and provide additional support to further our work.”
– Kyle Tafuri, Hackensack Meridian Health director of sustainability.
Coolfood is part of a cross-sector, international effort
Championed by the World Resource Institute, the pledge is a cross-sector, international effort to achieve a science-based collective target of reducing emissions from food by 25% by 2030 – the equivalent of taking 3.4 million cars off the road.
- 80+ members across sectors, including hotels and restaurants to universities, schools, hospitals, and workplace cafeterias
- Nearly half of Coolfood signatories are in health care
- In total, signatories serve more than 3.5 million meals per year
Dig in
Learn how pledge signatories give diners more of what they want while slashing food-related emissions, saving costs, and improving health by watching the short video below.
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