The current economic climate is enough to make us all feel a little down. Days are rapidly shortening, the list of price increases rapidly lengthening, daily doom alerts demand we lower our thermostats, turn off our lights, don’t boil our kettles… (really?! We Brits cannot do without a cuppa!).

According to Planetly, the F&B industry is responsible for 1/3 of global emissions. Hence the importance of the work being done across our industry to reduce the impact on our planet, most recently the drive to become Carbon Negative. From Behemoths such as Mondelez aiming for 2050 and UK brands such as Yorkshire Tea already sitting at carbon neutral, the gauntlet has well and truly been laid down.

Good Sense Research presented recently at September’s Speciality Fine Food Fair on ‘driving sustainability & ESG in food & drink’ the research telling us that whilst the ongoing Cost of Living Crisis (COLC) has re-focussed consumer minds somewhat in the short-term, they continue to be consciously aware regarding sustainability issues.