Our Five-Fold Evironmental Ambition
When the Food and Drink Federation
launched its Five-fold Environmental
Ambition in October 2007 we
committed, on behalf of our members,
to make a significant contribution to
improving the environment by targeting
those areas where we felt we could
make the biggest difference.
We also committed to report annually
on collective progress and are pleased
to be publishing this first year's report.
Foreword
The launch of FDF's Five-fold Environmental Ambition
last October, and the progress set out in this report, is
an impressive example of what businesses can do to
improve the environmental performance of a sector.
I am particularly pleased by the good progress FDF
members have made reducing CO2 emissions and
by their promising start on other aspects of their
environmental commitments. The extent to which the
adoption of best practice can yield improvements
that benefit both economic performance and the
environment is shown by the many case studies in
this report.
What is particularly good is the way in
which the Federation has been able to work with
organisations such as Envirowise, WRAP and NISP to
ensure that good ideas are shared and that practical
solutions on resource and energy use have been developed.
This is a good start, but, as always, there is more
that can be done. I hope FDF will encourage more
companies to do their bit. This is vital if we are to
meet challenging carbon reduction targets and
maintain prosperity through sustainable patterns of
consumption and production.
I congratulate FDF for showing leadership and wish
you and your members all the best as you continue
to improve the sustainability of the food and drink
manufacturing sector. I look forward to seeing further
progress in future annual reports.
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
Secretary of State for Environment,
Food & Rural Affairs
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Five Pillars
In launching their Environmental Ambition,
FDF's members recognised there were
five areas where they felt they could make
the biggest difference to the environment,
namely:
We are particularly pleased that the
latest data available clearly shows FDF
members are making solid progress in key
areas – which we will highlight in full
in this, our first annual progress report.
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Last reviewed: 24 Nov 2008