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[ad_1] The United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Food Waste Index Report 2024 was released recently. It revealed that the world wasted one-fifth of the total food available in 2022. This amounts to 1.05 billion tonnes (or 19 per cent) of food available to consumers "at the retail, food service, and household level." At the same time, 783 million people around the world suffer chronic hunger and a third of the world's population faces food insecurity. The report showed that households are the key culprit when it comes to overall food wastage.Also Read: Colombia Introduces World's First 'Junk Food Law' To Prevent Lifestyle Diseases: Reports"The equivalent of at least one billion meals of edible food is being wasted in households worldwide every single day, using a very conservative...

[ad_1] Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year. Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year, when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space.The U.N. Environment Programme said Friday that the new Methane Alert and Response System — MARS for short — is intended to help companies act on major emissions sources but also provide data in a transparent and independent way. It draws on satellite measurements performed by NASA and the European, German and Italian space agencies. Data from private satellite operators will also be incorporated in future. “Each of these instruments give us a c...

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UN to seek out methane emitters with data from space