Summary

Global commitments to food banking are essential for Food Loss and Waste prevention efforts to succeed. With increased support, food banks can multiply their impact on GHG emissions by redirecting more surplus food to more people in vulnerable situations. The project identifies a sustainable economic model for food banks to grow their impact across the world by reducing emissions and by recovering and redistributing more food. Additionally, the project helped avoid 1.5 billion kilograms of CO2e through food banks within the Global FoodBanking Network, equal to the emission reduction of taking 336,000 passenger vehicles off the road for one year.

Partners

• The Global FoodBanking Network
• Global Methane Hub
• The Carbon Trust
• Microsoft
• PIMCO