By Ian Quinn2021-07-20T00:01:00+01:00
Food and drink companies have agreed to “make or break” new targets to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and food waste, after conceding a previous flagship commitment was not ambitious enough.
After months of talks with food and drink companies and trade bodies, Wrap announced it was side-lining its Courtauld 2025 Commitment, launched in 2015, with a new set of promises backed by dozens of the UK’s biggest food retailers and suppliers to take “bolder” action to prevent an environmental disaster from climate change.
Its most striking move is a new industry-wide target to bring about a 50% absolute reduction of GHG emissions associated with food and drink by 2030, replacing far weaker plans to cut emissions per capita by 20% by 2025.