Sentences with phrase «halve global food waste»

This week a new report will be released on behalf of Champions 12.3 — a group of public and private sector leaders who have made a commitment to help halve global food waste per capita by 2030, in line with Target 12.3 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, «substantially reduce waste generation» and curb climate change.

Not exact matches

Included in Goal no. 12 on «responsible consumption and production» is a call to «halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels.»

Three of the UK's leading supermarkets have still not promised to halve their food waste by 2030, despite the UN urging companies to commit to this global target.

Target 12.3 of the goals calls for nations to «halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses» by 2030.

Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» has target 12.3 «by 2030, halve the per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains including post-harvest losses».

Can the UK and the world meet the global goal of halving food waste by 2030?

At the same time, 1.4 billion people are overweight, and nearly half of our global food supply is wasted.

This commitment to ensure that supply chain waste is measured and reported makes Tesco the world - leading supermarket on transparent food waste reporting, and represents a significant step towards meeting the global goal to halve food waste by 2030.

Target 12.3 is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains by 2030.

This is a crucial part of the journey to feed a growing global population and contribute to meeting the target of the Sustainable Development Goals to halve per capita global food waste by 2030.

Halving the per capita of global food waste at the retailer and consumer levels is also important for creating more efficient production and supply chains.

Goal 12 — to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns — is broken down into 11 smaller goals; 12.3 is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.

We have a SDG target, 12.3 to halve the global per capita food waste by 2030 on the global scale.

The Champion 12.3 partners are directly addressing Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 — to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food loss along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.

The U.S. goal to halve food loss and waste by 50 percent demonstrates America's leadership on a global level in getting wholesome food to people who need it, protecting our natural resources, cutting environmental pollution and promoting innovative approaches for reducing food loss and waste.

She has championed of SDG Target 12.3 in particular — noted in her organization of an official and highly successful side event on halving global food loss and waste by 2030.

Target 12.3 calls on the world to «halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses» by 2030.

FoodCache has joined Friends of Champions 12.3, an international network that's working to cut global food waste in half.

Champions 12.3 hosted a major event September 20, 2017 at The Rockefeller Foundation's New York office that assessed global progress toward SDG Target 12.3 on food loss and waste, announced landmark developments and set forth a pathway to cutting in half the more than 1 billion tons of food that goes uneaten each year.

Among them is Target 12.3, which calls for cutting in half per capita global food waste at retail and consumer levels and for reducing food losses along production and supply chains by 2030.

The aisle was opened in the George Verberne Jumbo Supermarket in Wageningen by Louise Fresco, President of Wageningen University & Research's executive board and a member of Champions 12.3, the global coalition of executives committed to halving food loss and waste by 2030.

Target 12.3 specifically aims to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.

Meanwhile, global businesses have also called for the simplification of food labels in order to make progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal of halving food waste by 2030.

Target 12.3 specifically aims to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.

Junguo Liu and colleagues point out that food waste is a global problem with an estimated one - third to one - half of food produced worldwide being lost or wasted from farm to fork.

The study's authors write that halving the amount of food waste and managing demand for particularly environmentally - damaging food products by changing global diets should be key aims that, if achieved, might mitigate some of the greenhouse gases causing climate change.

In their conclusion, the authors call on the global community to reduce the amount of wasted food and water by half by 2025 — a readily achievable goal, they say.