Facing a Global Challenge

 

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1 in 3 people worldwide are malnourished at an estimated global cost of $3.5 trillion a year. In 2022, 2.5 billion adults were overweight, including 890 million who were living with obesity. 

About a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is linked to food. Behaviour change of consumers through dietary shifts offers the industry a crucial opportunity to tackle climate change.

In a world facing growing health challenges, The Consumer Goods Forum’s Collaboration for Healthier Lives Coalition of Action (CHL) stands as a guiding light uniting retailers, manufacturers, and external stakeholders to promote healthier living around the world. 

The Coalition is led by manufacturers and retailers in partnership with public health authorities, local communities, academia and other stakeholders. Its commitment is to help people make healthier decisions every day in every community around the world. It is about making it easier for people to take care of themselves and their families.

Coalition action is backed by a charter adopted by all its members and outlines the following common objectives:

  • Inspire healthier behaviours in stores, online and in communities.
  • Build upon digital innovations and data sharing to enable new business models.
  • Enable healthy workforces by implementing Employee Health & Wellbeing programmes and through the Workforce Nutrition Alliance, co-created with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
  • Be a convening platform for business and stakeholders such as public health authorities, civil society organisations and academia.

Key Priorities 

Better Options: Improve accessibility of healthier and more sustainable products for consumers

Better Choices: Drive consumer choices and behaviour to encourage and enable healthier and more sustainable habits

Better Communities: Empower employee health and wellbeing initiatives

Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals 

CHL’s work on health and wellbeing is also supporting the broader UN goals for sustainable development. More specifically, to end hunger, promote good health and wellbeing and decent working conditions, as well as building effective partnerships.