New report highlights the business case for investing in soil health
Katowice, Poland, 5 December 2018: Today on World Soil Day at the UNFCCC COP24, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched a new report (…)
Tag: Food And Land Use
How does Halloween carving impact GHG emissions? Our new food loss and waste tool helps to answer this question
Halloween season means a lot of pumpkin waste It’s tradition to make lanterns out of pumpkins for Halloween. If every household in the United States (…)
Leading companies commit to action in climate smart agriculture – essential to achieving Paris Agreement goals
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 (…)
Launch of the Food Loss and Waste Value calculator
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 (…)
New Partnership Aims to Drastically Cut Food Loss and Waste in Indonesia
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 (…)
Prestigious World Food Prize awarded to Geneva-based food system and nutrition champions David Nabarro and Lawrence Haddad
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 (…)
Insider Perspective: EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018
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.
Business is the essential implementation partner for the Paris Agreement
As the world’s most powerful economic engine – with a strong presence across borders and within nation states – the power, cooperation and influence of (…)
Private sector food producers line up behind first ever global initiative to cut food losses
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 (…)
It is time to fix our broken food systems
Alison Cairns of the WBCSD issues a call for businesses across the food industry to come together to tackle shared environmental challenges