On International Day Against Climate Change, ARECO reaffirms its commitment to sustainability by promoting reusable packaging in the distribution of agri-food products, whose carbon footprint is 87% lower than that of single-use packaging. The International Day Against Climate Change, celebrated worldwide on October 24, is a global and unified response to the challenge posed by this phenomenon. This date, promoted…
In 1972, the United Nations designated June 5 as World Environment Day to highlight that the protection and health of the environment are key issues affecting the well-being of people and global economic development. Ensuring enough food for the world’s growing population, while reducing impacts on the environment, is one of the major challenges of the 21st century (UN, 2015).…
Ensuring enough food for the world’s growing population, while reducing impacts on the environment, is one of the main challenges of the 21st century (UN, 2015). Food systems are responsible for 23-42% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (IPCC, 2022). Overall, GHGs before and after agricultural production reached 5.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (Gt CO2eq) globally in 2020,…
By Sahar Azarkamand, researcher of the ARECO Fellowship of the UNESCO Chair on Life Cycle If the world’s population were to reach between 9.4 and 10.2 billion by 2050, it would require resources equivalent to almost three planets to sustain our current way of life. This underscores the need for improvements in all our resource management systems (UN, 2017). Packaging…
