Unilever, Olam, Barry Callebaut, Syngenta, Rabobank and the We Mean Business coalition spearhead CSA 100, which aims to close the emissions reduction gap and limit temperature rise to well below 2-degrees C Singapore, 24 October 2018: Today, CEOs from a number of member companies belonging to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched CSA […]
Geneva– 19 October 2018: On 25 September 2018, at the Champions 12.3 event, FReSH announced the creation of the Food Loss and Waste Value Calculator that allows to instantly estimate the value of food loss and waste in terms of the nutrition being lost and in terms of environmental impacts. FReSH recognizes the immense opportunity of addressing food loss and waste to improve […]
Copenhagen, 30 August 2018: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that one-third of all food produced annually for human consumption in the world is lost or wasted. In Indonesia, a country of 260 million people, the equivalent of 300 kilograms (660 pounds) per person is wasted, largely before fruits, vegetables, and grains […]
Geneva, Switzerland, 25 June 2018: The World Food Prize Committee today announced the award of the 2018 World Food Prize to Dr. David Nabarro, Strategic Director of Skills, Systems & Synergies for Sustainable Development (4SD) and Dr. Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). The Prize was founded in 1986 by Nobel […]
The 2018 EAT Stockholm Food Forum brought together over 600 key players from around the world – from farmers to CEOs to members of Sweden’s royal family – seeking to make healthy and sustainable food systems the norm.
As the world’s most powerful economic engine – with a strong presence across borders and within nation states – the power, cooperation and influence of industry is central for addressing the climate challenge. At the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), 200 of the world’s biggest companies are working together to address some of […]
New York, 20 September: A global initiative committing major international food producers to tough new targets to reduce food loss was announced today during the United Nations General Assembly’s Climate Week in New York1. This voluntary resolution calls on private sector members of the Global Agri-Business Alliance2 (GAA) to halve their food and agricultural losses by 2030, […]
Alison Cairns of the WBCSD issues a call for businesses across the food industry to come together to tackle shared environmental challenges
Report from Champions 12.3 shows that companies, consumers and governments can save billions of dollars and millions of tons of food by acting to cut food loss and waste Washington, 7 March 2017: One-third of all food produced in the world is never eaten, which has tremendous economic, social and environmental consequences. New research on behalf […]
-A partnership of leading international organizations is launching the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard at the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) 2016 Summit in Copenhagen. -New international framework launched to empower businesses, governments, and other organizations to measure, report on and manage food loss and waste -An estimated one-third of all food is lost […]