WWF and Partners Welcome New Bill to Fight US Food Waste & Build a Better Food System
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WWF and Partners Welcome New Bill to Fight US Food Waste & Build Better Food System
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The Pacific Coast of North America represents the world’s fifth largest economy, a region of 55 million people with a combined GDP of $3 trillion. But like most of the world, it has a big food waste problem. The Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC) has joined key players from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, and the cities of Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles to build a low-carbon economy, and food waste is one of its main focuses.
Pete Pearson, senior director of Food Loss and Waste, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and lead of the Pacific Coast Collaborative Food Waste Reduction executive committee, discusses how the PCC is going about reaching for its ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least 80% by 2050 specifically focusing on how businesses and government have begun working together to attack the food waste piece.
Home » Environment » A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled in Cascadia
Washington, Oregon and British Columbia pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions. In a decade full of big talk and some epic battles, they all failed.
With dozens of people killed by wildfires in the western U.S., millions of acres scorched, and choking smoke spreading far into British Columbia, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee lit up the news wires in September. “These are not just wildfires,” Inslee asserted at a press conference from Olympia, “these are
climate fires.”
Two days later on George Stephanopoulos’ Sunday-morning ABC News talk show, the recent presidential candidate recounted a poignant visit to a town nearly wiped out by the fires. “The only moisture in Eastern Washington was the tears of people who have lost their homes,” said Inslee. “And now we have a blowtorch over our states in the West, which is climate change.”