Climate change leaders are urging governments to put ending food waste at the heart of the forthcoming COP30 conference in Brazil, warning it is “morally indefensible” to waste huge amounts of food while hundreds of millions of people around the world are starving.
A raft of leading climate and food waste organisations held a webinar yesterday ahead of the event, which starts on 10 November in Belém.
Wrap, the US food waste not-for-profit body ReFED and The Global Foodbanking Network were among those calling for an end to food waste to be made a key priority of the summit.
Brazil alone is estimated to produce more than 20 million tonnes of food waste every year, with the food chain responsible for 10% of all global emissions.
Wrap CEO Catherine David, who was among prominent figures speaking on the webinar, said that whilst countries like the UK had made progress in reducing food waste in the supply chain and in households, much more needed to be done at a global level to prioritise tackling waste.
“In a world where hundreds of millions of people are facing hunger, wasting food is indefensible, so tackling food loss and waste is both a moral and climate necessity,” she said.
“We need to make COP30 the moment every country puts food loss at the heart of their climate plans.”
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