ClimateWire: Today is World Environment Day, and to mark it, the U.N. Environment Programme and the World Resources Institute are releasing a paper calling for concerted action to reduce food loss and waste.
UNEP and WRI estimate that one-third of all food produced annually worldwide, worth about $1 trillion, gets either lost or wasted.
Converting this to calories, they say, it means one-quarter of all calories intended for human consumption are never eaten.
Boxes of spoiled or blemished food, pulled...