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Sharing the great words from my amazing co-lead of global sustainability and celebrating all the sustainable business goodness captured in this Newsweek article. These are both such happy things for me! #coleadership #sustainablebusiness

Food systems are one of those things we can't live without and are having a hard time making a dent at decarbonizing. The numbers are here to tell us we need to try harder Those of us who are trying to make a change know that change comes in two ways, incremental developments and big leaps. In the fight against climate change both a legitimate. For our food systems, we must work on the incremental steps while we wait for one of those big leaps. Because each of those gets us that much closer to our goal. Max Krasilovsky Richard Kottmeyer Bonnie Nay-Draper Jonathan Berger Amir Zaidman Philippe Vanrie Tamar Weiss Matilda Ho Dana Kedar Kyle Welborn Constantino Matouk Iriondo Mark Cupta Shay Bialik #foodtech #sustainablefoodsystems #climatechange

🥓 Food: Our Planet's Biggest Driver of Climate Change? We've all heard about transportation and energy driving climate change. But did you know the global food system is the single largest emitter? It releases over 1/3 of all greenhouse gases through deforestation, industrial agriculture, and inefficient practices. How can this be? Well, nothing dominates our planet like food. “Together, croplands and grazing lands cover ~38% of the Earth’s land surface. To put this in perspective, all of the world’s cities and suburbs cover less than 1% of Earth’s land.” And animal ag takes up a whopping 80% of farmland! 🐄 The consequences are immense. Food is the top cause of habitat loss worldwide. It also guzzles 70% of our H2O and floods rivers with fertilizer runoff. 💧 But there is hope. Solutions like cutting food waste, shifting diets, and rewilding degraded land would slash emissions dramatically. “Cutting back – even a little – on red meat and dairy products can have disproportionally large benefits for climate change. While an all-vegan diet is unlikely to become the norm anytime soon, small shifts toward a more plant-rich diet with fewer and smaller portions of less-polluting animal protein can provide huge benefits for climate, land, water, biodiversity, and human health.” 🌱 To learn more, read this insightful and hopeful article: Fixing Food’s Big Climate Problem by Jonathan Foley https://lnkd.in/gAUQvmmz #projectdrawdown #climateaction #plantbased #jackiemays #sustainabilityX #savetheplanet

Food is crucial for survival. With the increasing population, food production has risen significantly. However, food distribution remains unequal. Shockingly, approximately 2.5 billion tons of food are wasted annually. While we can't completely eliminate food waste, we can certainly minimize it and repurpose wasted food for generating power, creating fertilizer, and other useful purposes. Food waste contributes directly to accelerating climate change, making it imperative to address this issue. Student Society for Climate Change Awareness #SSCCA #ClimateAction #climatetankaccelerator #foodsecurity

Project Drawdown is launching a major new initiative: Drawdown Food, to equip people in the food systems sector with the tools and insights they need to reduce emissions. As they say: "Food is the forgotten frontier of climate action. While energy, transportation, and industry garner much of the attention, what we eat and how we grow is one of the biggest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions." According to Project Drawdown executive director Jonathan Foley, “Using available technologies and practices, we can meet every person’s food needs while also neutralizing the food system’s impact on climate. We just need to apply the right combinations of solutions in the right place at the right time.” #climate #sustainablefood

The Hidden Cost of Our Plate: How the Food We Eat and Waste Impact Climate Change? https://lnkd.in/gxu3w9ax #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Foodwastage

This is a fascinating story on how food waste is a gigantic issue and how it relates to climate issues. For an additional read on how food waste is associated with climate change, I highly recommend "The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren! The author discusses many issues with food waste being one of them.

🎯Hunger and climate change are interconnected. Climate change affects food production and security through extreme weather events, altering growing conditions, and disrupting supply chains. This leads to food scarcity, higher prices, and malnutrition. Addressing these challenges requires sustainable agriculture, reducing food waste, and promoting climate-resilient policies. #ClimateAction #climatechange

This article takes a look at the greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and how reducing food waste can make a big difference: https://reut.rs/3Z6LYzP #FoodWaste

We are what we eat! And what we eat is not being decarbonized quickly enough. Actually, the food industry is not on a path towards decarbonization, rather the opposite. Considering that the sector is responsible for up to one-third of all annual GHG emissions, massive challenges remain. Please check out my brief on the carbon intensity of the food sector here: https://lnkd.in/e5hPAuqy #climatechange #decarbonization #ghgemissions