Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 6:27:33 GMT
Sustainable Brands recently commented that the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has launched a CEO-led Food Waste Action Coalition, made up of 14 of the world's largest retailers and manufacturers, aiming to halve global waste. of food per capita at the level of retailers and consumers. Food waste continues to be a critical environmental, social and economic problem worldwide. One third of the food produced is not consumed, which represents about 1.3 billion tons of food lost each year and represents an economic cost to the global economy of $940 billion. Food waste also adds 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year; Therefore, if food waste were a country, its carbon footprint would be the third largest, surpassed only by that of China and the United States. New technologies and innovations that aim to reduce food waste along the value chain continue to emerge, but they are still piecemeal and have not scaled up enough to make a true reduction. Characteristics of the new Coalition This new Coalition, with the global reach and influence of its members, aims to finally move the needle. In 2015, the CGF launched a resolution to mitigate the approximately 40% of food waste globally, agreeing to halve food waste within the operations of its 400 retail and manufacturing members by 2025, and support the broader objectives of the United Nations on the issue.
This new Coalition will build on those efforts, as well as those of Champions a long-standing partner of the CGF and a multi-stakeholder organization working to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Europe Cell Phone Number List Development Goal 12.3 . and will request labeling with a standardized date. The initial 14 members of the Coalition are: Ahold Delhaize. Barilla. Bel Group. General Mills. Kellogg Company. Majid Al Futtaim. McCain Foods. Merck Animal Health. Metro AG. Migros Ticaret. Nestlé. Sainsbury. Tesco. Walmart. Through their participation, members have committed to fulfilling three Coalition commitments: Report your food loss data for 2021. Expand the 10x20x30 initiative of Champions 12.3, extending its collaboration beyond the Coalition to involve its suppliers and stakeholders .
Address food loss at the post-harvest level, which is responsible for the creation of 30% of food waste, by engaging stakeholders to develop effective food loss prevention strategies. The Coalition is also creating regional working groups to drive implementation at the local level, and to help engage stakeholders in North America, Latin America as well as China and Japan. Furthermore, it is sponsored at CGF Board level by Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive of Tesco and Chairman of Champions 12.3; and McCain President and CEO Max Koeune. The Coalition Steering Committee is co-chaired by Francisco Cordero of Kellogg and Ahold Delhaize of Brittni Furrow (USA). The General Director of the CGF, Wai-Chan Chan, has also become the latest “Champion” of Champions 12.3.Frequent flying "super emitters", who make up just 1% of the world's population, caused half of aviation's carbon emissions in 2018, according to a study. According to The Guardian and researchers' estimates, airlines had produced a billion tonnes of CO2 and benefited from a $100bn (£75bn) subsidy by not paying for the climate damage they caused. . The study brings together the data to give the clearest overall picture of the impact of frequent travelers. Only 11% of the world's population took a flight in 2018 and 4% flew abroad.
