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"Major food companies in Australia are roundly failing to set adequate targets
to reduce their impact on nature and most are not assessing how their supply
chains are hitting the environment, according to a first-of-its-kind report
from conservationists.
The
Future of Food report from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF)
assessed 20 major food companies across 37 different indicators, from
deforestation and pollution to transparency and governance.
Targets to halt damage to nature were “severely lacking”, the report said, and
none of the five biggest beef buyers had deforestation targets in line with
international best practice.
No company had carried out a risk assessment of their impacts and dependencies
on nature, and no companies had science-aligned targets to cut either water use
or freshwater pollution.
The findings were an “urgent call to action to Australia’s food businesses to
step up to the plate”, the report said.
“We know half of Australia’s economy is dependent on nature, and food companies
are among the most dependent. If they’re not addressing these issues, it will
come back to bite them,” said Bonnie Graham, the lead author of the report and
a corporate campaigner at ACF.
“Companies are just vastly underprepared to assess nature issues in their
supply chains. It is clear companies are not addressing nature at this point,
it’s clear also that they’re not aware of these either at a board level or
through their governance.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
