The bigger picture: WWF’s role in driving SCP

The last few decades have been a time of dynamic changes across the world, with millions of people lifted out of poverty and a number of countries reaching middle income status. 

However, these achievements and changes have come at a significant cost to the environment. Increasing demand for energy, food, water and other resources has resulted in resource depletion, pollution, environmental degradation and climate change, pushing the earth towards its environmental limits. 

With humans now consuming more resources than ever before, the current patterns of development across the world are not sustainable.

One of the key elements for achieving sustainable development is the transition towards Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). In the long term, SCP can contribute to poverty alleviation and the transition towards a low carbon, green economy. This is essential for achieving a just development for all, including improving the lives of the world’s poorest people who depend on the natural resources provided by their environment.

Why the Global South?

Home to some of the most populous and rapidly developing regions in the world, this is where Future Food Together has the greatest potential to make a significant and sustained impact on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and building more efficient food systems that better serve our communities.

WWF Food Practice

WWF’s Food Practice works to convene stakeholders from across the food system and integrate decisions that will ensure human and planetary health.

It focuses on three key outcomes by 2030:

• Half of the area used for agriculture and aquaculture is sustainably managed, with no new areas being converted
• Global food waste is halved and post-harvest loss is reduced
• Human and planetary health are aligned to halve the global footprints of diets