Why Is Food Waste So Devastating?

Between 33% & 50% of all food produced on this planet is wasted. If food waste were a country, it would be the 3rd highest emitter of greenhouse gases - which makes food waste reduction one of the most effective & important solution to mitigating climate change & keeping global heating to within 2°C of warming.

Yet, it is often overlooked and only 6% of the Paris Agreement signatories have any target on food waste reduction.

All of this while 690 million people suffer from hunger and 1.3 billion people suffer from moderate food insecurity globally.

This is simply unacceptable. Read Matt Homewood blog on why Stockholm+50 MUST be the tuning point for global food waste.

Can Stockholm+50 be a Turning Point for Gender Equality?

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted significant vulnerabilities worldwide, indicating an urgency for inclusive and collective engagement. Gender-just transitions won’t happen by themself: they will require dedicated effort, focus and collaboration from many different political and economic actors.

Stockholm+50 can be the place to harness our individual resources and provide pathways for placing gender equality at the centre of global environmental actions for the years to come.

Circular Water Economy

Achieving a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic:

First and foremost, we must recognise that many countries around the world are not only recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. In my country of Zimbabwe, we are still recovering from a devastating cyclone that occurred in 2019, which pre-dates the pandemic.

Extreme weather phenomena such as rising temperatures and the increasing frequency of droughts and floods are affecting lives and livelihoods in Africa. According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, five African countries ranked among the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather in 2019: Mozambique (first), Zimbabwe (second), Malawi (fifth), South Sudan (eighth), and Niger (ninth).

Call for a green, just economic recovery agenda in Hong Kong

Nature-based Solutions Mitigating Emissions and Protecting Water Quality

Introducing the vital and wonderful work of the Action for the Climate Emergency...

The climate emergency is here. The world as we know it is running out of time and the window for small, incremental action has closed. Instead, we need an emergency-level response to avert climate catastrophe—and leaders with the courage and mandate to take bold action. Our critical window of opportunity to sound the alarm is ever-narrowing and the time to act is NOW.

We are meeting this moment with boldness and have changed our name to Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) to better reflect the full breadth of our work. Our evolved mission is to educate, inspire and support young people to lead the fight for their future. We achieve our mission by reaching tens of millions of young people with our programs each year, training a new generation of leaders, amplifying youth voices to shift the narrative, and increasing diverse youth participation in our democracy. 

ACE was founded in 2008 with the visionary (and at the time fringe) belief that to halt a global crisis, the climate movement needed the engagement of young people. Back then, we were told again and again that young people were not a priority because they couldn’t or wouldn’t vote, and couldn’t be organized. How times have changed. With the failure of our leaders to act and an explosion of youth activism and visibility within the movement, our outlying belief in the power of youth is now common knowledge—and to many, our best source of hope.

We believe that ACE has a critical role to play in growing the power of the movement by amplifying the voices and values of young people. When young people call for climate justice, they do so with the moral authority of a generation that will have to live with the choices our leaders make today. Youth voices are not the only ones needed in the global climate movement, but without the power of youth, we simply cannot win.....One thing is clear: we have no time to lose. Leah Qusba, ACE Executive Director
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