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UNEP Africa Food Waste Working Group 2023Workshop 3: Circular Food System Transitions

UNEP Africa Food Waste Working Group 2023Workshop 2: Consumer Behaviour Change Programmes

UNEP Africa Food Waste Working Group 2023Workshop 1: Public Private Partnerships

This Recipe of Change Toolkit is a compilation of best practices and lessons learnt from all the work that was developed in the region towards reducing food waste in the hospitality sector. The Toolkit, which was developed by the Hospitality industry for the Hospitality industry, aims for food waste management and reduction to move from occasional campaigns to become a lifestyle to “Halve the…

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Governments need to act urgently to reduce methane emissions, which account for approximately 30% of current global warming. While carbon dioxide remains the main driver of long-term warming, methane’s high heat-trapping potential and short atmospheric lifetime means that controlling methane emissions can effectively slow temperature rise and reduce the risk of overshooting 1.5°C in the near term…

What would it take to achieve widespread and reliable information on carbon footprints of agri-food products? This report argues that eight building blocks are essential. Reporting standards, science-based methods, farm-level calculation tools, and databases with secondary data are needed to calculate carbon footprints, but these must be complemented with ways to communicate carbon footprint data…

This first-of-its-kind report produced by Drawdown Lift shows that leaders do not have to choose among human development, climate mitigation, and climate adaptation; win-win solutions are at hand. The Drawdown Lift Human Well-Being Index, introduced in this report, serves as a framework for assessing 12 health, socioeconomic, and societal dimensions of human well-being and highlighting…

Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) is critical to finding global solutions to the triple challenge of feeding a growing world population, ensuring the livelihoods of households along the agro-food supply chain, and delivering on climate and environmental sustainability commitments. Tracking the progress made in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 12.3 of halving…

The State of Food Waste in West Asia highlights the potential of promoting sustainable lifestyles and empowering youth to positively impact at the consumer level. Other key findings deal with the importance of raising awareness about the impact on the environment and food security, about the financial benefits of reducing food waste, as well as with promoting gender-inclusive strategies…

The Global Cooling Watch report, Keeping it Chill: How to meet cooling demands while cutting emissions – by the UN Environment Programme-led Cool Coalition – lays out sustainable cooling measures in three areas: passive cooling, higher-energy efficiency standards, and a faster phase down of climate-warming refrigerants. The report is released in support of the Global Cooling Pledge, a joint…

The Food Waste Index Report aims at supporting the goals of SDG 12.3. It achieves this by presenting the most comprehensive food waste data collection, analysis, and modeling to date, thereby generating a new estimate of global food waste; and by publishing a methodology for countries to measure food waste at the household, food service, and retail levels, enabling the tracking of national…

The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global and national estimates, detailed in Chapter 2 of the main report. Secondly, it expands on the SDG 12.3 food waste measurement methodology introduced in the 2021 report, offering enhanced guidance on…

This report provides an overview of the causes of consumer food waste and the opportunities for reducing it through: behavioural change, technological solutions, and public and private initiatives to mitigate the problem. This study aims to improve understanding of how green and digital technologies could be used to reduce consumer food waste. By combining global research cutting across multiple…

The Global Methane Assessment shows that human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to 45 per cent this decade. Such reductions would avoid nearly 0.3°C of global warming by 2045 and would be consistent with keeping the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (1.5˚C) within reach.The assessment, for the first time, integrates the climate and…