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Food waste contributes 10% to global emissions but 9 out of 10 countries’ NDCs fail to focus on food waste and loss

Envirotec Magazine

WRAP warns that food loss and waste have devastating impacts on society and global economies too. The World Economic Forum estimates that food loss and waste costs the global economy $936 billion a year, while more than 783 million people go hungry and a third of humanity faces food insecurity.

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Tetra Pak 2022 Sustainability Report: Message From the CEO

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: As the world continued to experience the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including global supply chain disruptions, resource shortages, employment challenges and inflation – these have not been easy times. This tragic and terrible war, which we strongly condemn, unfortunately shows no signs of abating.

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TED Talk: 3 Rules for a Zero Carbon World

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

Here is one of our favorites: Stop feeling overwhelmed by the global effort to reduce CO2 emissions, says Nigel Topping, the High Level Climate Action Champion for the UN’s climate change conference COP26. The UN’s COP26 has developed toolkits for every sector of the global economy and published a roadmap of shared pathways.

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. In St John River Forest in Maine (US), The Nature Conservancy bought 75,000 hectares from the pulp and paper manufacturer International Paper.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C Anything less is incompatible with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.”

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time.