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“The world is facing a food-waste crisis. It is estimated that 931 million tonnes of food were wasted by households, retailers, restaurants and other food services in 2019. Around 61% of this waste occurs within households” – says the latest UNEP...
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For World Food Day 2021, an international day celebrated annually on 16 October to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945, researchers on the CANDIES project take a closer look at...
The report explores impacts of consumption in six domains: food; housing, personal transport; goods; leisure; and services, and uses these to aggregate total lifestyle carbon footprints and reveal hotspots in the ten surveyed countries, representing...
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Compliance with the Paris Agreement needs our emissions down to an equitable annual 0.7 tons CO2e per person; the way things are going, that task of reducing consumption levels has been assigned to those that already consume less. This article...
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A community meeting, named Junta Local, occurs every weekend in Rio de Janeiro. It values the goods of those who eat and those who produce. The event has the purpose of presenting healthy and local food at a fair price and bringing producers and...
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In preparation for Stockholm 50, a series of regional multi-stakeholder consultations will be organized in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and West Asia between April and May 2022.
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Norris Square Neighborhood Project's urban garden projects in West Kensington, Philadelphia and their significance to urban agriculture and sustainability.
You can help your suppliers reduce their emissions – and your own carbon footprint.
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We have expanded our biodiversity preservation program with dozens of animal protection tools so that our birds can fly into the cold seasons with the greatest possible support... Bat houses and predator houses, fruits and fat substitutes, organic...
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With carbon reporting requirements expanding around the world, 2023 will see many businesses disclosing their emissions for the first time. To report emissions, a business first needs to calculate them using carbon accounting, a process that involves...