Environmental NGO WRAP is utilizing COP29 to focus on the necessity for nations to incorporate meals loss and waste of their Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs).
A brand new report reveals that, of the 195 nations attending COP29, solely 12 have dedicated to decreasing meals waste and simply 17 to tackling meals loss. In whole, 24 nations (12%) decide to decreasing meals loss and/or waste whereas 88% attending the worldwide local weather convention have made no commitments to handle both to this point of their NDCs.
Harriet Lamb CEO WRAP, commented: “Our international meals system is damaged and is wrecking the atmosphere. The IPCC made it clear that meals manufacturing contributes 37% to all greenhouse gasoline emissions and even when all different emissions ended instantly, international meals manufacturing alone would push us far past 1.5°C. Wasted meals contributes virtually 5 occasions extra GHG emissions than aviation and have been it a rustic, meals waste could be the world’s third largest emitter after China and the USA. So the truth that so few nations are addressing this crucial scenario of their NDCs is surprising.”
The newest Meals Waste Index Report (2024), compiled by the United Nations Surroundings Programme (UNEP) and co-authored by WRAP, discovered that the world wastes over a billion tonnes of meals – one fifth of all meals obtainable to shoppers on the retail, meals service and family degree yearly. That is along with 13 per cent misplaced within the provide chain, in keeping with the FAO.
WRAP warns that meals loss and waste have devastating impacts on society and international economies too. The World Financial Discussion board estimates that meals loss and waste prices the worldwide economic system $936 billion a 12 months, whereas greater than 783 million individuals go hungry and a 3rd of humanity faces meals insecurity.
WRAP advises that nations are lacking a golden alternative to deal with greenhouse gasoline emissions and improve safety of meals provides to their residents by stopping meals loss and waste. The worldwide NGO will use COP29 to restate its message that we can’t deal with local weather change if we don’t repair our damaged meals system.
As a member of The International Motion Drive group (GAD)*, WRAP and its companions are calling on all nations to take the next decisive steps:
Decide to delivering UN Sustainable Growth Purpose 12.3 and halve per capita international meals waste on the retail and client ranges and cut back meals losses alongside manufacturing and provide chains, together with post-harvest losses, by 2030,
Embrace this dedication of their new NDCs to be submitted by early 2025,
Set significant targets and intersectoral mechanisms to operationalise observe up,
Again this dedication with particular sensible coverage measures,
Begin measuring and reporting meals loss and waste at nationwide and sector ranges, and
Embrace strong nationwide information to report on progress by the biennial transparency stories.
Motion on meals loss and waste at COP29
Primarily based on its analysis of how nations have built-in meals loss and waste into their NDCs to various levels, WRAP and GAD have printed a finest observe information Why & How you can Incorporate Decreasing Meals Loss and Waste into Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs) for nations to incorporate meals loss and waste of their NDCs.
International locations have till February 2025 to submit their NDCs for COP30 and WRAP is looking on all governments to incorporate meals loss and waste discount forward of the following international assembly. Doing so gives nations that signed the International Methane Pledge (158 nations, COP26 – European Union and the USA), and people who signed UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Meals Programs, and Local weather Motion (160+ nations, COP28) the chance to strengthen their local weather commitments.
WRAP may even be a part of with The International Meals Banking Community, ReFED and FareShare to host a collection of periods devoted to addressing meals loss and waste at COP29.
Happening within the Motion on Meals Hub (Blue Zone) the periods will carry collectively leaders and consultants to concentrate on insurance policies and authorized frameworks to discover strategies and improvements in the direction of decreasing the quantity of meals that fails to feed individuals. The collection of workshops will spotlight initiatives and options from world wide to representatives from authorities, enterprise, multilaterals and different civil society organizations.
Harriet Lamb, ‘Meals, textiles and manufactured merchandise account for almost 50% of worldwide greenhouse gasoline emissions. Addressing the issues in our meals system and making a round economic system are key to tackling these big emitters of greenhouse gases. We should embrace round dwelling in each boardroom and each dwelling.’
