:\u201cne\u2019ma\u201d, The National Food Loss and Waste Initiative in UAE, signs a memorandum of understanding with \u201cHeroGo\u201d, the first grocery delivery company that is dedicated to revising the current grocery ecosystem where one-third of food grown globally is wasted. This partnership paves the way for attaining ne\u2019ma\u2019s strategic objective of halving food waste by 50% by 2030, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Goals 12.3. It also cements the collaborative efforts from key stakeholders aimed at changing consumption patterns to address the problem of food loss and waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The memorandum of understanding was signed by Khuloud Hassan Al Nuwais, Chief Sustainability Officer at \u201cEmirates Foundation\u201d and \u201cne\u2019ma\u201d Committee Secretary Generaland Mr. Daniel Solomon, the Founder of \u201cHeroGo\u201d, on Thursday 15 December at Emirates Foundation headquarters in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al Nuwaiscommented: \u201cThrough this fruitful cooperation with \u201cHeroGo\u201d, we aim to support the national food loss and waste reduction goals and contributeto the national food security strategy. We are working on consolidating efforts to bring together key stakeholders who are keen on filling systemic gaps, scaling positive solutions and policies, leading behaviour change, and raising awareness.\u201d
Al Nuwais added: \u201cThrough scaling up home-grown ideas, innovations and technologies, \u201cne\u2019ma\u201d has a goal to enable systematic changes and drive behavioural change by raising awareness about sustainable food consumption and food waste reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daniel Solomon, the Founder of \u201cHeroGo\u201d, stated:\u201cWe are pleased to sign the memorandum of understanding with \u201cne\u2019ma\u201d which is a token of our joint efforts to reduce food waste. We will collaborate on raising awareness, educating,and engaging with community members to inspire and reconsider their food consumption behaviours, cherish food, and understand the value of reducing food waste.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Solomon added: \u201cThrough our sustainable practices, this year \u201cHeroGo\u201d has contributed to a water saving of 98 million litres \u2013 that\u2019s equivalent to 39 Olympic-sized swimming pools;reduced 142,340kg of CO2 from being emitted \u2013 which is enough to power one home for 35 years; andprovided around 26,000 meals to those in need. Wealso have pledged that for every box delivered,\u201cHeroGo\u201d will provide two meals for two people in need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cooperation with \u201cHeroGo\u201d represents a significant step towards consolidating efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at enabling food waste reduction. It also represents an opportunity to connect with key stakeholders, design collaborative initiatives, pilots, and projects to develop constructive solutions and reinforce positive consumption behaviour to reduce food loss and waste under the umbrella of \u201cne\u2019ma\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
:\u201cne\u2019ma\u201d, The National Food Loss and Waste Initiative in UAE, signs a memorandum of understanding with \u201cHeroGo\u201d, the first grocery delivery company that is dedicated to revising the current grocery ecosystem where one-third of food grown globally is wasted. This partnership paves the way for attaining ne\u2019ma\u2019s strategic objective of halving food waste by 50% by 2030, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Goals 12.3. It also cements the collaborative efforts from key stakeholders aimed at changing consumption patterns to address the problem of food loss and waste. The memorandum of understanding was signed by Khuloud Hassan Al Nuwais, Chief Sustainability Officer at \u201cEmirates Foundation\u201d and \u201cne\u2019ma\u201d Committee Secretary Generaland Mr. Daniel Solomon, the Founder of \u201cHeroGo\u201d, on Thursday 15 December at Emirates Foundation headquarters in Abu Dhabi. Al Nuwaiscommented: \u201cThrough this fruitful cooperation with \u201cHeroGo\u201d, we aim to support the national food loss and waste reduction goals and contributeto the national food security strategy. We are working on consolidating efforts to bring together key stakeholders who are keen on filling systemic gaps, scaling positive solutions and policies, leading behaviour change, and raising awareness.\u201dAl Nuwais added: \u201cThrough scaling up home-grown ideas, innovations and technologies, \u201cne\u2019ma\u201d has a goal to enable systematic changes and drive behavioural change by raising awareness about sustainable food consumption and food waste reduction.\u201d Daniel Solomon, the Founder of \u201cHeroGo\u201d, stated:\u201cWe are pleased to sign the memorandum of understanding with \u201cne\u2019ma\u201d which is a token of our joint efforts to reduce food waste. We will collaborate on raising awareness, educating,and engaging with community members to inspire and reconsider their food consumption behaviours, cherish food, and understand the value of reducing food waste.\u201d Solomon added: \u201cThrough our sustainable practices, this year \u201cHeroGo\u201d has contributed to a water saving of 98 million litres \u2013 that\u2019s equivalent to 39 Olympic-sized swimming pools;reduced 142,340kg of CO2 from being emitted \u2013 which is enough to power one home for 35 years; andprovided around 26,000 meals to those in need. Wealso have pledged that for every box delivered,\u201cHeroGo\u201d will provide two meals for two people in need.\u201d The cooperation with \u201cHeroGo\u201d represents a significant step towards consolidating efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at enabling food waste reduction. It also represents an opportunity to connect with key stakeholders, design collaborative initiatives, pilots, and projects to develop constructive solutions and reinforce positive consumption behaviour to reduce food loss and waste under the umbrella of \u201cne\u2019ma\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[73,70,75],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-actions","category-top-news","tag-climate-change","tag-mahmoud-mohieldin","tag-sustainable-development-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youth-cop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}