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Search Paris, Thursday 17th April – The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Food Waste Coalition of Action, in partnership with WRAP and the World Resources Institute (WRI), has announced 13th June 2025 as a shared deadline for voluntary annual food waste reporting by retailers, manufacturers, and HaFS businesses, starting in 2025. This alignment between the three organisations is a critical step toward streamlining food waste reporting, establishing a consistent date from this year onward for businesses to report against a shared timeframe.
The consumer goods industry must act urgently, as the 2030 deadline for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 – to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along the production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses – is fast approaching. Businesses are uniquely positioned in addressing food waste, and their actions can drive meaningful progress. To scale impact and make measurable change, the industry needs a unified approach to track and report food waste.
The unified reporting timeframe is part of the ongoing effort between the CGF, WRAP and WRI on reinforcing the global “Target, Measure, Act” approach, which calls for businesses to set clear targets, measure their progress, and take decisive action. Reliable data is the backbone of this movement, and a global reporting date is key to aligning efforts across the sector. Building on the existing reporting template, it streamlines processes and enables businesses to engage in transparent, consistent reporting.
This joint announcement represents another collaborative milestone between the CGF, WRAP and WRI, demonstrating their shared commitment to accelerating progress toward SDG 12.3. Together, the three organisations aim to remove barriers and make it easier for businesses to act, reinforcing the global call to action on food waste.
Wai-Chan Chan, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum, said:
“To meet the 2030 target, we need accurate, timely data that reflects the scale of the challenge. By aligning on a common food waste reporting date and framework, we are ensuring that the reporting process is simplified, making it more straightforward for businesses to report and focussing energies on effectively pursuing solutions.”
Catherine David, Director of Behaviour Change and Business Programmes, WRAP, said:
“By aligning the UK Food and Drink Pact with the CGF’s Food Waste Coalition and 10x20x30, we will bring businesses right into the heart of global efforts to halve food waste. Businesses are uniquely placed to influence action in their own supply chains, and in their customers’ homes and play a central role in global action on food waste prevention. We are delighted to cement our close partnerships with the CGF and WRI with this important move that strengthens our shared ambition to meet Sustainable Development Goal 12.3.”
Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, WRI, said:
“Data is essential to understanding where and how much food is being wasted in a business’s operation. Without good data, businesses are shooting in the dark and may miss critical opportunities to reduce the amount of food they waste. This shared reporting date will help bring alignment across the private sector, making it easier for businesses to track performance, share insights, and ultimately accelerate action toward SDG 12.3.”
Ken Murphy, Group CEO of Tesco, and Max Koeune, President & CEO of McCain Foods, Co-Sponsors of CGF’s Food Waste Coalition of Action, also reinforced the importance of this milestone:
“We know how important both transparency in reporting and collective action is in driving progress on food waste. By embracing the harmonized reporting date and a consistent reporting approach, we can improve data quality and transparency, ultimately enabling better decision-making, greater accountability, and more impactful interventions. We want to drive meaningful progress across the food industry in tackling food waste, ensuring that we can act together with greater efficiency and scale to meet our 2030 commitments – and this is an important step in achieving that.”
For more information:
Louise Chester
Communications Manager
The Consumer Goods Forum
Sharon Bligh
Director, Health and Sustainability
The Consumer Goods Forum
About the Food Waste Coalition of Action
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s CEO-led Coalition of Action on Food Waste brings together 21 of the world’s largest consumer goods retailers and manufacturers with the goal of halving per capita global food loss at the retailer and consumer levels. With its explicit CEO engagement, action-oriented commitments and passion for accelerating sustainable change on a global level, the Coalition is a leader in the effort to reduce food loss in supply chains worldwide by driving action on key issues such as public reporting, full supply chain engagement, post-harvest losses and regional challenges. Together, the Coalition and its members play a powerful role in the effort to reduce waste, reducing stress on the environment, benefitting the global economy and ensuring more food makes it to stores and onto consumers’ tables in the process. For more information about the Coalition, visit www.tcgffoodwaste.com.
About WRAP
WRAP is a global environmental action NGO catalysing policy makers, businesses and individuals to transform the systems that create our food, textiles and manufactured products. Together these account for nearly 50% of global greenhouse emissions. Its goal is to enable the world to transition from the old take-make-dispose model of production to more sustainable approaches that will radically reduce waste and carbon emissions from everyday products. To do so it examines sustainability challenges through the lens of people’s day-to-day lives and create solutions that can transform entire systems to benefit the planet, nature and people.
About World Resources Institute
WRI is a trusted partner for change. Using research-based approaches, we work globally and in focus countries to meet people’s essential needs; to protect and restore nature; and to stabilize the climate and build resilient communities. We aim to fundamentally transform the way the world produces and uses food and energy and designs its cities to create a better future for all. Founded in 1982, WRI has nearly 2,000 staff around the world, with country offices in Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States and regional offices in Africa and Europe.
