Blog Posts: champions 12.3

This episode of WRI’s “Big Ideas Into Action” podcast examines the battle to end food waste in Europe, Latin America and beyond.

One of the great challenges of the 21st century is how to nutritiously feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050. One key is reducing food loss and waste at a large scale. Here are 10 interventions that can help in this critical effort.

Too much food is lost or wasted, and the lack of efficiency is very bad for the climate. A progress report suggests that governments and businesses need to do more if they're going to meet Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, which calls for the world to halve food loss and waste by 2030.

By implementing relatively simple solutions, hotels can cut food waste and achieve dramatic savings. Here's a menu of options on how to move past business-as-usual to a more efficient approach.

To achieve radical reductions in food loss and waste, governments and businesses need to act now. A new report from the Champions 12.3 coalition reviews progress to date on meeting Target 12.3 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

As diplomats and ministers at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly focus on advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, leaders from business, states and cities will participate in Climate Week NYC to demonstrate the resounding commitment to building a clean, resilient, inclusive global economy. Here are highlights of WRI's participation in Climate Week.

WRI's new Food Loss & Waste director Liz Goodwin suggests three key steps -- setting strong targets, measuring for management, and concrete, replicable action -- for reducing food loss and waste.

Champions 12.3, a voluntary coalition of executives from government, business, farmer groups and more, aims to help halve global food waste by 2030 while also reducing food loss.