“Business needs to do what it does best: to innovate and set up action plans to get to a 1.5 degree world”
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Tag: Agriculture and Food
Tackling food loss and waste – DuPont Supporting plant-based foods by extending the shelf life of yogurts by ten days
One-third of food produced is never consumed: this represents 8% of global GHG and a quarter of the water used in agriculture, as well as crop-land the size of China.
Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use – Summary for Business
The report is focused on ten critical transitions based on advanced scenario modeling that will deliver health, environmental and inclusion benefits.
The UNCCD Delhi declaration from business
Business recognizes that the world needs to build a future that avoids, minimizes, and reverses desertification and land degradation and mitigates the effects of drought.
WBCSD India Day 2019
Home to one-sixth of the world’s population, India is transitioning fast. By 2030, the middle class is expected to grow to be the largest in the world representing an estimated USD$ 6 trillion growth opportunity for businesses.
What science means for business
A Food and Nature example
Taking collective action further for transforming freshwater use
The World Water Week in Stockholm (25-30 August) is a great annual bellwether for the water sector: trending topics, pioneering organizations and a sense of where the sector is heading.
2019 IPBES Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services report
The Global Assessment report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services published in August 2019 by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), is the first assessment of this magnitude in almost 15 years. It highlights the status and trends of the natural world, the social implication of these trends, their direct and indirect causes, […]
Helping the postal sector to become more sustainable
Peter Bakker, president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, outlines its Vision 2050 program and how it applies to posts.
IPCC Special Report Climate Change and Land
The report finds that sustainable land management is a tool to combat climate change and is also urgently needed to keep land productive to improve food security.