Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Campbell’s Goldfish crackers get $160m production boost

01-Aug-2023 By Gill Hyslop

Campbell Soup Company is hoping a $160m refurbishment to its Pepperidge Farm bakery in Richmond, Utah, will tip its Goldfish cracker brand over the billion-dollar sales mark.

Don’t get caught in the greenwashing trap

12-Jul-2023 By Gill Hyslop

Despite high inflation, the majority of consumers are happy to pay more for products with a sustainable backstory. So there’s money to be made from environmental credentials, which makes falling into the greenwashing trap a bigger temptation than ever...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Is consumer food waste giving the industry an unfair rap over emissions?

19-May-2023 By Oliver Morrison

New research suggests food wastage – much of which comes from people simply not eating what they buy – is a bigger problem than previously thought, which if cut in half would help remove around one-quarter of total greenhouse gas emissions from the global...

HowGood: ‘We’ve created the world’s largest food sustainability database’

04-Aug-2022 By Elaine Watson

Food and beverage companies are under increasing pressure to measure, reduce, and accurately report their social and environmental impact, with the SEC recently outlining proposals* that would require all registrants to disclose their scope three greenhouse...

13 food giants pledge to ‘redouble’ climate change efforts at COP22

21-Nov-2016 By Louis Gore-Langton

A coalition of food industry giants pledged to “redouble their efforts” in combating carbon emissions, carbon dioxide and deforestation, at the COP22 meeting in Morocco last week.

Study out of Purdue estimates environmental toll of eliminating GMOs

07-Mar-2016 By Adi Menayang

Calculations by researchers at Purdue estimate 102,000 hectares of US forest and pasture would have to be converted to cropland if GMOs were eliminated, but anti-GMO organizations argued that the study isn’t valid.

Lettuce creates three times more greenhouse gas emissions than bacon

17-Dec-2015 By Oscar Rousseau

Eating pork will produce around one third of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) found in a diet rich in lettuce, a new study has claimed.

Organic food production ‘needs direction’ to be sustainable, warns US study

15-Jul-2015 By Nathan Gray

An increasing number of commercial organic operations could be contributing to higher levels of greenhouse gases coming from each acre of farm land, say researchers who warn that organic food production needs to take the right direction on emissions.

organic and non-gmo trends

Sustainability generates substantial cost savings for Stonyfield Farm

27-Apr-2015 By Elizabeth Crawford

Stonyfield Farm’s wide-ranging and forward-looking sustainability initiatives launched in the last decade have helped the firm save more than the environment – they also saved the organic yogurt maker more than $31 million in costs.

Unilever and Nestlé biggest improvers in Oxfam sustainability report

18-Sep-2013 By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

Many major food companies are slowly improving their sustainability policies but all still have a long way to go, according to an updated ‘Behind the Brands’ sustainability report from Oxfam.

Out-of-the-box logistics thinking helps Ocean Spray cut 40% transportation costs & 20% in greenhouse gases

04-Feb-2013 By Stephen DANIELLS

Cranberry giant Ocean Spray has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% and its transportation costs by 40% on a major distribution route by bringing supply closer to demand with a new distribution center and partnering with a competitor.

Increasing cropland yields vital to meet growing food demand: Study

22-Nov-2011 By Caroline Scott-Thomas

Developing nations will need to increase cropland yields and all nations will need to use nitrogen fertilizers more efficiently in order to double food production by 2050, while minimizing environmental impact, according to a new paper published in Proceedings...