Introduction

• 30-50% food produced is wasted.
• Copenhagen, one of the world’s “most sustainable” cities.
• 2.5 trillion kilograms; “a conservative estimation“.

Human Hunger

• Global food insecurity.
• Covid-19 economic impacts.

Climate Change

• If Food Waste were a country, it would be the 3rd largest emitter.
• Global Food Waste: ~10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
• Project Drawdown’s “The Drawdown Review” released in 2020.
• Project Drawdown’s Reduced Food Waste Solution.

Economic Injustice

• Denmark’s 2,700 grocery stores.
• Denmark’s supermarkets throw out 96 million kilograms of food waste, 12% of the nation’s total food waste.
• 251,000 Danish citizens live in economic poverty, of whom 61,000 are children.

Animal Suffering

• One of the “worst crimes in history”.
• 20% of global meat production wasted.
• Two out of every three farm animals now reared intensively.
• 50 billion chickens, 1.5 billion pigs.
• 545 million sheep, 444 million goats & 300 million cattle.

Global Injustice

• Per person, industrialised nations waste much more food.
• Annual amount of food that’s wasted across Earth is equal to four times the amount of food that could end world hunger.
• “Feed the World“.

Biodiversity Crisis

• One million animal & plant species threatened with extinction.
• 68% average decline in global vertebrate species’ populations.
• Agriculture using almost half of all the Earth’s ice-free land.
• Deforestation of tropical forests increased by 30% in the 2010s compared to the 2000s.

Nutrients & Chemicals