UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2024 - Launch Event

Name: UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2024 - Launch Event
Start: 2024-03-27
End: 2024-03-27

27 March 2024

Overview

Agenda

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Time: 8:30-9:30 Washington DC / 9:30-10:30 Brasilia / 12:30-13:30 London / 13:30-14:30 Paris / 14:30-15:30 Pretoria | Register

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To mark the second annual International Day of Zero Waste, UNEP will launch its Food Waste Index Report 2024 on 27 March 2024. The report provides the latest global estimates on food waste, occurring at retail and consumer level. Addressing food waste is an important facet of embracing zero waste and tackling the climate crisis.

Objective

UNEP, as custodian of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 food waste indicator, publishes a triennial report tracking country-level progress to halve food waste by 2030. First published in 2021, the initial report demonstrated that household food waste is a global challenge, not limited to high-income countries.

Leading food waste experts will highlight the report’s findings and recommendations and a panel discussion will explore G20 action to deliver SDG 12.3.

1. Welcome remarks from moderator Keishamaza Rukikaire on International Day of Zero Waste

2. Opening Remarks by Dechen Tsering, a.i. Director, Climate Change Division, UNEP

3. Report Key Findings, Clementine O’Connor, UNEP, and Richard Swannell, WRAP

4. Panel discussion on G20 action on food waste, moderated by Nancy Groves:

- Adalberto Maluf, National Secretary for Urban Environment and Environmental Quality, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil

- Thembelihle Ndukwana, Director of Agro-Processing, Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa

- Hodayah Finman, Deputy Director, Office of International Affairs, US EPA

5. Closing remarks from Alwin Kopse, Head of International Affairs and Food Systems, Federal Office of Agriculture of Switzerland