The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has launched a CEO-led Coalition of
Action on Food
Waste,
comprised of 14 of the world’s largest retailers and manufacturers with the goal
of halving per capita global food loss at the retailer and consumer levels.
Food waste remains a critical environmental, social and economic issue
worldwide. A third of food produced is never eaten, which amounts to about 1.3
billion tonnes of food lost each year — which represents an economic cost to the
global economy of US$940 billion. Food waste also adds 3.3 billion tonnes of
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually; so, if food waste were a country,
its carbon footprint would be third only to China and the US.
New
technologies
and
innovations
continue to emerge that aim to curtail food waste throughout the value chain,
but they remain piecemeal and have yet to be scaled enough to make a real dent.
This new Coalition, with its members’ global reach and influence, aims to
finally move the needle. In 2015, CGF launched a
resolution
to mitigate the roughly 40 percent of food wasted globally by agreeing to halve
food waste within the operations of its 400 retailer and manufacturer members by
2025, and to support wider UN Goals on the issue. This new Coalition will build
off of those efforts, as well as those of Champions
12.3
— a long-time CGF partner and multi-stakeholder organisation working to reach
UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 —
and call for standardized date labelling.
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The 14 initial members of the Coalition are Ahold Delhaize, Barilla,
Bel Group, General Mills, Kellogg Company, Majid Al Futtaim,
McCain Foods, Merck Animal Health, Metro AG, Migros Ticaret,
Nestlé,
Sainsbury,
Tesco
and Walmart.
Through their participation in the Coalition, members have committed to fulfill
three Coalition commitments:
The Coalition is also creating regional working groups to drive implementation
at the local level, and to help engage key stakeholders in North America,
Latin America, and China and Japan.
The Coalition is sponsored at the CGF Board level by Dave Lewis, Group Chief
Executive of Tesco and Chair of Champions 12.3; and McCain President and CEO
Max Koeune. The Coalition Steering Committee is co-chaired by Kellogg’s
Francisco Cordero and Ahold Delhaize USA’s Brittni Furrow. CGF Managing
Director Wai-Chan Chan has also become Champions 12.3’s latest “Champion.”
Learn more about the Coalition of Action on Food Waste
here.
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Sustainable Brands Staff
Published Aug 24, 2020 8am EDT / 5am PDT / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST