Amy Fetzer

Amy Fetzer is Director of Insights and Special Projects at Footprint. She is responsible for curating the Footprint Festival programme and leads evidence-based thought leadership focused on the future of sustainable food, hospitality and foodservice. With more than 20 years’ experience as a sustainability consultant, she helps organisations turn complex sustainability challenges into practical action through strategy, behaviour change, events and training. Her work focuses on issues including food waste, sustainable diets, resource use and net zero.
  • Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS is opening Footprint Festival

    Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS is opening Footprint Festival

    Climate shocks. Energy costs. Supply chain volatility. Geopolitical disruption. These aren’t abstract risks — they’re hitting your margins, your sourcing and your strategy right now. Charles is one of the world’s leading voices on food systems and climate policy, Director…

  • Can salmon farming ever be sustainable at scale?

    Can salmon farming ever be sustainable at scale?

    Farmed salmon has become a foodservice staple, but evidence of environmental damage, welfare failures and food colonialism raises the question: is this fish as clean as it claims?

  • News in review – health, bees, milk, water and sugar updates

    HEALTH. OBESITY has been in the news again this week. New research suggests the obesity crisis could be partly driven by women having fewer children as first born children are 29% more likely to be overweight as adults. Meanwhile, according…

  • Formula-1 style energy recovery system for lorries could reduce emissions by 25%

    A NEW Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) popular in Formula 1 could cut lorry emissions and fuel usage by up to 25%.   Road haulage accounts for a fifth of the EU’s total CO2 emissions.   The first KERS system…

  • Germany to implement GM crop ban

    GERMANY IS planning to follow Scotland’s example of opting out of the block-wide EU GM license. This will allow them to block famers from using GM organisms. The move comes after new rules allow individual member states to stop farmers…

  • Rainy weather boosts eating out bill

    POOR WEATHER has meant that many families have turned to eating out as a way to help keep the kids entertained. Figures released by the Greene King Leisure spend tracker has revealed that British households spent 11% more on eating…

  • Footprint Insight: Nothing is new but everything is different

    SUSTAINABILITY IN business is constantly evolving, so how can an organisation keep its approach not only up-to-date but market leading? Amy Fetzer reports on a Bidvest steering group set up to answer just that question. How can we maintain sustainability…

  • Spreading the news

    NUTELLA’S UNDESERVED criticism from the French environment minister suggests that brands could do more to highlight their progress on sustainable palm oil argues David Burrows. It’s not often that the likes of Greenpeace will jump to defence of a multinational food…

  • Behind the news headlines: Sodexo’s carbon commitment

    THE GROUP’S plan to slash emissions by 1.7m tonnes is a huge commitment but one that should bring rich rewards. David Burrows investigates.   Sodexo has announced plans to cut carbon emissions 34% by 2020. Published on World Environment Day…

  • Environmental project top of the bill at Reading Festival 2015

    MANY FESTIVAL-GOERS heading to Reading Festival over the August Bank Holiday weekend will leave behind their camping equipment.   Festival Republic are delighted to announce a UK festival first and ground breaking collaborative partnership with Knowledge Transfer Network, and Julie’s…