The Food and Drink Federation publishes Ambition 2025 Progress and Mid-Term Review reports
Food and drink companies beat CO2 reduction targets five years early, leading to new sustainability commitments in far reaching report.
Tackling food waste wherever it occurs across supply chains is a key priority for FDF members. Particular emphasis is placed on driving out inefficiency in supply chains to prevent waste and surpluses from occurring in the first place, in line with the food waste hierarchy.
FDF members are committed to working collaboratively with their supply chain partners to meet the WRAP Courtauld 2025 and UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 food waste reduction targets. This includes our support for important initiatives such as Step up to the Plate, the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap, and the Your Business is Food Campaign.
This is illustrated by the commitments the FDF has made around food waste within its Ambition 2025. These include the contribution we are making to the WRAP Courtauld 2025 target to reduce UK food waste by 20% per person by 2025 compared to 2015.
The Scottish Government has set a target of reducing food waste by 33% against 2013 levels. They published a food waste reduction action plan in April 2019 which explains how food waste can be reduced.
Updates & milestones
WRAP launch Courtauld Commitment 2030 with renewed targets
Today WRAP have announced that they have extended their Courtauld commitment to 2030, with renewed targets on food waste, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and water.
- On food waste, to deliver against UN SDG 12.3: a 50% per capita reduction in food waste by 2030 vs the UK 2007 baseline (covering manufacture, retail, hospitality and food service, and household)
- On GHG emissions, to deliver a 50% absolute reduction in GHG emissions associated with food and drink consumed in the UK by 2030 (against a 2015 baseline)
- On water, for businesses to increase water use efficiency in their own operations and contribute to achieving sustainable water management to improve the quality and availability of water at catchment scale with an overall target that by 2030 50% of fresh food is sources from areas with sustainable water management
You can find a summary of progress to date in the Courtauld Commitment Annual Report.
At the same time, and to enable smaller businesses to engage with Courtauld Commitment 2030, WRAP has introduced an Associate Membership model.
Ambition 2025 progress report and mid-term review published
On 24 February, the FDF launched our Ambition 2025 Mid-term Review and Ambition 2025 Progress Report 2020 which was supported by a series of member case studies.
As highlighted in this year’s progress report, there has been exceptional progress in some areas, including:
- 55% reduction in CO2 emissions, five years before the target was due to be reached.
- 41.5% reduction in absolute water consumption in 2019 and support for the Courtauld 2025 Water Ambition.
- Contributed to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.
- Continued to build relationships with key stakeholders and with UK governments including through engagement on various the Plastics tax; undertook advocacy on PRN cost crisis; supported the UK Plastics Pact; and launched new guidelines on using recycled content in plastic packaging applications.
- Promoted the fewer and friendlier miles agenda through FDF’s 10 Point Checklist.
- Updated and promoted the Sustainability Resource Hub.
- Promoted the FDF Natural Capital Awareness Document.
The FDF also published a press release, with supporting quote from Environment Minister, Rebecca Pow MP. The launch has been extensively covered across the trade media.
UK Food Waste Reduction Roadmap Progress Report 2020
On 24 September, WRAP and IGD published the UK Food Waste Reduction Roadmap Progress Report 2020.
Despite the challenging times for the grocery sector, the WRAP/IGD report highlights the progress made in terms of businesses committing to the Roadmap, implementing Target Measure Act and reporting on food surplus and waste.
Alongside the report, WRAP also published a suite of new case studies, new and updated technical guidance and a new Whole Chain Food Waste Reduction Plan Toolkit which offers farm-to-fork solutions for businesses.
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Food and Drink Federation response to the introduction of the Environment Bill
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Manufacturers reduce food waste by 30% within a decade
The FDF has today published the latest annual progress report for its Ambition 2025 environmental targets, showing that the food and drink manufacturing sector delivered a reduction in food waste of over 30% on a per capita basis since 2011.
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Ambition 2025
Ambition 2025 sets out the FDF's vision for a thriving, responsible and sustainable UK food and drink industry.
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Report: FDF's Ambition: Progress report 2020
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The FDF and our members remain committed to the sustainability agenda and delivering environmental improvements across all areas of our Ambition.
Read moreWRAP report on ‘Surplus food redistribution in the UK 2015 - 2020’
In June, WRAP reported a huge rise in surplus food redistribution during lockdown with the equivalent of more than 220 million meals worth of food prevented from going to waste by food businesses through partnerships with charitable and commercial redistributors, helped by funding from UK governments.
WRAP’s report ‘Surplus food redistribution in the UK 2015 - 2020’ shows since UK data were first reported (2015), redistribution has tripled. Two-thirds of the total increase in 2020 is from retail and manufacturing, while 23% came from Hospitality and Food Service and farms.