The move marks a growing trend at global events to serve food that has a reduced environmental impact and follows on from the 2024 Paris Olympics and COP28 where plant-based food also took priority.
At the Bonn conference, renamed this year as the June Climate Meetings (SB62), delegates will set the agenda for the COP30 climate summit in Brazil in November 2025.
Jasmijn de Boo, ProVeg Global chief executive, said: “We are delighted that the food at the event will be mainly vegan and vegetarian.
“It gives the opportunity for delegates at this important global conference to enjoy climate-friendly food and realise how tasty the solutions to climate change can really be. Plant-based food emits half the amount of greenhouse gases as animal-based food so nations need to promote plant-based food where they can.”
Broich Catering, a company whose origins date back to 1734, is providing the food for the climate conference. The 5,000 delegates attending the Bonn event will be served a hot lunch menu that will be 57% vegan and 14% vegetarian. The snack food offerings will be 37% vegan and 46% vegetarian.
Claus Meinen, part of the company’s management team, added: “This year, we are happy to contribute to sustainable and climate-friendly catering, and we appreciate the general recognition for this at the UN event, and at other events catered for at the World Conference Center Bonn.”