Packaging Can Help Restore Earth’s Health by Lars Holmquist Executive Vice-President, Sustainability & Communi- cations,Tetra Pak The world currently wastes one-third of all food pro- duced. The food processing and packaging industry can contribute to the transformation of food systems. Food packaging can adopt many approaches to a more sustainable supply chain. The United Nations’ latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report represents a code red for our global food systems. Stating that the global temperature, which rose 1.1°C between 1850-1900, is expected to reach or exceed 1.5°C Celsius of warm- ing, the report warns of overlapping risks across ener- gy, food and water sectors, creating a disastrous future for global food systems. These rising temperatures will reportedly reduce global yields in maize rice and, potentially, other cereal crops, while adversely affecting feed quality, spread of diseases and water-resource availability for livestock, with every increase of 0.5°C predicted to bring more frequent and intense agricultural droughts. Ironically, our global food systems themselves are par- tially to blame for the current situation, accounting for over a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. With the global population projected to hit 9.7 billion by 2050, demand for food continues to grow, yet the world currently wastes a third of the food it produces due to inefficient production and preservation practices from developing countries’ lack of infrastructure, and devel- oped countries’ unsustainable consumption practices. These gross inefficiencies reveal a toxic and unsus- tainable relationship between our global food systems and the planet, amounting to some $12 trillion in hid- den costs each year, which far exceeds the market val- ue of agricultural commodities. Though food production and environmental con- servation have historically been at odds, only through working together and finding common ground will we enable the global transformation of food systems to best address this dangerous cycle. Global challenges and crises have no borders and require international cooperation and multilateral re- sponses to the food system issues. From farmers to processors to packers to distributors to consumers around the world, we must overhaul the way we ap- proach, produce and consume food to adhere to the “planetary health diet”. These shared approaches are particularly critical as the world transitions to the post-pandemic recovery era.
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