Engage in the transformation of the economy. Take part in our work with the food retail sector!

The Platform’s sector sprint work programme aims to identify technical, finance and policy barriers and bottlenecks preventing sector-wide transformative changes in line with ‘nature-positive’ pathways. This year, the Platform’s work is focusing on the food retail sector.    

The food retail sector is a major driver of the global economy which involves the sale of goods through different channels (i.e. stores, retail, online platforms) to consumers. Its strategic position in the supply chain between the producer and the consumer can drive and coordinate substantial environmental impact and transformative actions by influencing all the actors along the value chain. 

In the next few months, the EU B&B Platform will engage with food retail companies with the objective to explore sector-wide transformative actions in line with ‘nature-positive’ pathways. This engagement effort will seek to develop sector guidance to support companies on their nature journeys: understanding their impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities in order to prioritise actions that contribute to nature positive and reduce nature negative. It will help identify the drivers (technological, financial, political, etc.) to facilitate nature-positive business trajectories looking, in particular, at the role of communication along the value chain (i.e. upstream, midstream, downstream), finance and policy as enablers of change.  

Join us as we engage with stakeholders in the form of a series of workshops starting in October 2024. If you are interested in taking part in the Platform’s consultation, reach out to us via email: eubb_platformicf [dot] com (eubb_platform[at]icf[dot]com)