Dec 2024
What's in store for the planet report 2024
The production and distribution of food, of which over a third goes to waste, is responsible for 70% of nature loss and around a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Food retailers, who stand at the nexus of supply chains and consumers, are in a unique position to reshape our food system.
In November 2021, WWF announced the WWF Basket - our ambition to halve the environmental impact of UK shopping baskets by 2030. We published outcomes and measures to define the targets the retail industry should work towards and explain how we’re measuring progress.
We are pleased to share our third report, which is an in-depth review of the UK food retail sector’s impact across seven key areas, showing the distance to go towards the ambition of the WWF Basket and highlighting key actions to help drive progress in the years ahead.