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Read the latest diet and health updates in food and drink manufacturing.

Turning waste into value: Circular economy strategies

18 September 2025

A roadmap for nature restoration: Nature reporting for food & drink businesses

05 August 2025

Breaking down barriers to electrification in food & drink with battery energy storage systems (BESS)

24 July 2025

Rethinking solar: from cost centre to strategic advantage

18 July 2025

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Ambition 2030

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Ambition 2030

Ambition 2030 is the flagship environmental sustainability strategy for food and drink manufacturing and sets out the sector’s important role in tackling environmental challenges and how every business can make its contribution.

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Pillar 1: Net Zero

This pillar provides a strategic overview on delivering FDF's Net Zero Ambition and targets for 2030.

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Pillar 2: Nature restoration

This pillar outlines how members can contribute to the UK’s Nature Positive ambition to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.

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Pillar 3: Sustainable commodities

This pillar focuses on how members can contribute to halting commodity-driven deforestation and conversion by 2030.

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Pillar 4: Food waste

This pillar focuses on how FDF members will contribute to halving food waste by 2030.

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Pillar 5: Packaging

This pillar outlines how we will contribute to the implementation of a world-class packaging recycling.

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Guidance & toolkits

Scotland

Net Zero Support for Scotland

Our Net Zero Commitment Programme is here to ensure that everyone in Scotland’s food and drink industry understands net zero, knows where we’re going and knows how to get there.

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Energy

The seriousness of the energy price situation and its impact on food and drink manufacturers continues to be a top focus at the FDF.

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Climate Change Agreements

Climate Change Agreements (CCAs) are voluntary agreements entered into by UK industry with the Environment Agency to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide emissions.

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Make the most of your membership with our committees, newsletters and alerts.

Environmental Sustainability Committee (ESC)

The Environmental Sustainability Committee aims to provide a strategic and proactive lead on sustainability and environmental issues, and its areas of work include: climate change, energy, packaging, food waste, water, environmental regulation, transport, natural capital, sustainable

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Watch previous environmental sustainability webinars, hosted by FDF and our professional affiliate members.

Introduction to Nature with the Green Finance Institute

In support of FDF’s Ambition 2030 Nature pillar, this webinar covers what guidance is there for food and drink manufacturers on nature, and explains how retailers and manufacturers are getting started.

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