EAT-Lancet Commission: Brief For Business
EAT-Lancet Commission: Brief For Business
EAT-Lancet Commission: Brief For Business
Commission
report Summary
brief for
business
Our future depends on our ability Aligned with the United Nations
The World Business Council to create a food system that Sustainable Development Goals
for Sustainable Development supports healthy people and (SDGs) and the Paris Climate
(WBCSD) is working with a healthy planet. Current food Agreement, the EAT-Lancet report
more than 80 companies to systems are outstripping the outlines how to deliver a sustainable
develop a shared ambition for resources of the planet, while diets and healthy food system for
the food systems. Achieving are resulting in global health crises 10 billion people within planetary
our Healthy People, Healthy of both over - and under-nutrition. boundaries by 2050.
Planet vision will require All this will be amplified by continued
population growth and changes Achieving these targets will
leadership action and
in dietary habits. require an unprecedented system
wide-scale deployment of
transformation, not dissimilar – yet
business solutions across
The independent EAT-Lancet more complex – than the changes
the value chain of nutrition Commission report, Our Food in the we are now seeing in the global
and health, livelihoods and Anthropocene: Healthy Diets from energy system. In order to lead
human rights, biodiversity Sustainable Food Systems, is the the transformation and secure
and ecosystems, and climate first to connect scientific targets continued business success,
mitigation and resilience. for global healthy diets with those companies in the food systems
for sustainable food production. need to come prepared.
Business solutions
Promote food products Produce and supply food Halve food loss and waste
contributing to healthy sustainably across your value chain in line
and sustainable diets with the SDGs
• Decrease GHG emissions across
• E mbrace a diverse and operations and supply chains by, • Use the Food Loss and Waste
sustainable mix of proteins, for example, using natural climate Protocol to set a benchmark
increasing diverse plant-based solutions, no till, low till, and and quantify food loss and
protein sources. precision-agriculture technology. waste in terms of nutrition
• Expand and standardize food • Increase water use efficiency and environmental impacts.
labeling to include information with improved water management • Build business capabilities
on the health and sustainability and technology. through education and training.
implications of products, • Improve animal farming • Help consumers reduce their
including suggested serving practices by scaling up food waste with ideas and apps
sizes and their environmental sustainable feeds and using for using leftovers, portion sizes.
costs. diverse, locally-relevant integrated • Deploy logistics solutions and
• Drive transparent marketing production systems. technology to improve storage,
practices that promote the • Support farmers in this transition and smart packaging solutions.
consumption of healthy and with training and development,
sustainable foods. grants and recognition.
• Develop strategies for making • Align business strategies
healthy ingredients and food and R&D to provide nutritious
more accessible and affordable, and affordable foods sourced
especially in emerging markets. sustainably.
Additional resources
• Participate in multi-stakeholder • Download the full EAT-Lancet • More information on WBCSD’s
initiatives like the Food and Land Commission report or summary. Food and Nature projects is
Use Coalition (FOLU) and the Food available here.
System Dialogues that foster • The EAT-Lancet Commission
greater interaction to unlock new scientific targets for healthy diets
models of sustainable nutrition and sustainable food production
within planetary boundaries. are available here.