2026 Climate Solutions Prize Festival
Event description
The Good Food Institute is headed to Montréal for the 2026 Climate Solutions Prize Festival, a two-day gathering focused on the ideas, technologies, and partnerships shaping the future of climate solutions.
Bruce Friedrich, founder and president of GFI, will speak as part of the Festival’s AgTech track, joining conversations on resilient food systems and the next wave of agricultural innovation. His session will explore how advances in alternative proteins can help produce the foods people love with far less land, water, and emissions—while strengthening food security and supporting more resilient economies.
Bringing together researchers, startups, investors, policymakers, and industry leaders, the Festival is designed for serious conversations and real momentum. Expect candid discussion, fresh thinking, and a close look at the solutions already moving from breakthrough to scale.
Event location
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Bruce Friedrich
PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, GFI
Bruce has penned op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Nature Food, Wired, and many other publications. He has represented GFI on the Ezra Klein Show, Making Sense (Sam Harris), TED Radio Hour, New Yorker Radio Hour, PBS News Hour, and a variety of other podcasts and TV programs. Bruce’s TED talk has been viewed almost 2.5 million times and translated into 30 languages.
Nature featured Bruce’s 2026 book Meat as one of its five “best science picks,” and Publishers Weekly selected Meat as one of the 10 best new releases in science, writing: “This packed account makes food science feel like an urgent and essential undertaking.”
The book has also received praise from Nobel Laureate in economics Michael Kremer, primatologist Jane Goodall, science fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson, and CSIS director of global food and water security Caitlin Welsh, who penned the foreword. Says Welsh: “This book explains the imperative to transform our food systems, and lays out a game plan to get us there…. Meat is as important as it is enjoyable.”
Find out more on the book’s website, MeatBook.org.
Bruce graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown Law and also holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics, and Grinnell College.
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