- WRAP at Climate Week NYC - globalising Circular Living initiatives
- WRAP moves clothing durability work forward into America and the EU
Global environmental action NGO WRAP will be sending a delegation to Climate Week NYC from its UK and US offices to host a series of special talks covering its international work reducing plastic pollution and food waste across multiple countries. The delegation includes WRAP CEO Catherine David, Chair Sebastian Munden, Director of Americas Leah Karrer, and Director of International Development David Rogers.
If you would like to arrange interviews with any of the delegates or request comments on developing issues, please contact Ian Palmer.
The organisation will attend key events and host a series of invitation-only roundtables with partners including Tesco:
Tuesday 23 September
Tesco and WRAP roundtable at Goals House – From Policy to Plate: Halving Global Food Loss and Waste by 2030. Tesco and WRAP will examine how to reduce food loss and waste globally through meaningful and effective policies at the national, state, city and community level. Christine Heffernan Tesco’s Chief Communications & Sustainability Officer and WRAP CEO Catherine David will talk with key industry figures.
WRAP Roundtable – Creating Value from Circularity through EPR - As corporations seek ways to reduce the costs of packaging and the associated waste, Extended Producer Responsibility is gaining interest and adoption worldwide. With global business leaders we'll explore EPR realities, successes and barriers with a focus on reuse and refill, drawing on the experience of a wide range of experts from the USA, UK and Plastics Pact Network. Hosted by Sebastian Munden with Catherine David and Leah Karrer – email to join our waiting list [email protected]
WRI - Champions 12.3 strategy meeting Flagship meeting to shape direction through on-the-ground action, financing food loss & waste reduction and developing a new narrative on food waste. The meeting will review progress and future priorities. Catherine David to attend.
WRI – Champions 12.3 flagship event Public event focussed on practical, actionable strategies to reduce food loss & waste that can be implemented immediately. Focused on real-time insights into what’s working and how to scale these options.
Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting (24/25 Sept) The twentieth Clinton Global Initiative meeting hosted by President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Dr. Chelsea Clinton brings together leaders from government, business and civil society to discuss how to solve the most pressing global issues. International Director David Rogers will present WRAP’s plan to reduce food loss and waste in India.
WRAP delegation
Catherine David, Chief Executive Officer WRAP Catherine’s mission is to bring circular living to every boardroom and every home. She has spent her career building coalitions globally with businesses and governments to drive system transformation with expertise in the food, packaging, textiles and fast-moving consumer goods sectors. Biography and LinkedIn
Sebastian Munden, Chair WRAP Sebastian has over 30 years’ experience in the fast-moving consumer products industry creating brands with commercial success while addressing wider responsibilities to society and the planet. He was chief executive of Unilever UK & Ireland, one of the founding signatories to the UK Plastic Pact. He is Global Chair of Ad Net Zero and currently the independent Chair of the advisory steering group for PackUK, the scheme administrator for packaging EPR. Biography and LinkedIn
Leah Karrer, Executive Director Americas Leah has over 25-years’ experience of building, advising and directing multi-million-dollar global conservation initiatives. Prior to joining WRAP as Executive Director for the Americas, she developed and managed the Global Environment Facility’s portfolio of circular economy related projects, including a suite of over $200M plastic pollution reducing projects in 20 countries. Biography and LinkedIn
David Rogers, Director of International Development David has spent 16 years at WRAP leading international work on sustainable, circular systems for food and materials. He has developed and overseen high-impact initiatives across six continents in policy, business supply chains, and consumer campaigns on plastics, food, and textiles. David has worked with the EU Commission, UNEP, FCDO, US EPA, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, WEF, governments, foundations, and corporations worldwide. Biography and LinkedIn
Circular Living in America
WRAP will also be using Climate Week NYC to speak with major US clothing brands about expanding its work on durability into America. The climate action NGO recently published preliminary results of its durability study with the University of Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour (LITAC), one of the most comprehensive investigations into garment durability, which found that price has very little to do with the durability of most t-shirts sold in the UK. Next WRAP’s Durability Accelerator Initiative aims to examine items from leading US brands and assess durability to help to benchmark the US market. This will help bring visibility of what garment durability looks like in the US and identify weak spots and common failures in garments with a view to inform future product development, and design improvements. Any companies wishing to engage are invited to contact WRAP.
WRAP is conducting similar work in Europe to accompany that in the UK and US with the goal of bringing together data to create international alignment on durability beyond borders – putting businesses in the driver’s seat to shape best practice, rather than waiting to be led by policy.
WRAP will be supporting World Resources Institute (WRI) during Climate Week NYC in promoting new food waste messaging developed to engage with new audiences. Led by WRI as part of its work with Champions 12.3 and GAD (Global Action Drive which also includes WRAP, WWF, ReFED, NDC Partnership, UN Sustainable Solutions Network) a new food waste toolkit for communications professionals will be presented at the Champions 12.3 meeting.
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Notes to Editor
WRAP is a global environmental action NGO catalysing policy makers, businesses and individuals to transform the systems that create our food, textiles and manufactured products. Together these account for nearly 50% of global greenhouse emissions. Our goal is to enable the world to transition from the old take-make-dispose model of production to more sustainable approaches that will radically reduce waste and carbon emissions from everyday products. To do so we examine sustainability challenges through the lens of people’s day-to-day lives and create solutions that can transform entire systems to benefit the planet, nature and people.
Our work includes: UK Plastics Pact, UK Food and Drink Pact, UK Textiles Pact and the campaigns Love Food Hate Waste and Recycle Now. We run Food Waste Action Week and Recycle Week.
Please contact: wrap.ngo