OmniAction

Risky business: ESG needs an agreed metric for agriculture and food
2022-07-13 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
There is no agreed method for measuring Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) credentials in agriculture and food. How can we address this?

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OmniAction gathers experts from within its community to discuss the terrible risk that business and finace currently faces – and to explore how OmniAction might support efforts to address this.
According to FAIRR:

50% of the largest protein producer companies rank as High Risk, signalling chronic underreporting and poor management of major risk themes
70% of total sector emissions – typically within Scope 3 – remain largely untargeted for reductions. Only 18% of companies set a Scope 3 target.
60% of companies are yet to set targets for Scope 1 and 2.
82% of companies that produce meat and dairy do not disclose how they address water scarcity risks in feed farming.
No beef producer in Brazil can trace the entire life cycle of its sourced cattle, with current monitoring systems missing an estimated 85-90% of deforestation.

Join our panelists:

Catherine Chong, ESG and sustainability advisor
Sarah Blanchard, head of ESG at Prof. Consulting Group and a consultant for International Finance Corporation
Helena Wright, Policy Director at FAIRR

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We’ll be seeking to update our Charter of Global Food Impacts with the insights gathered.

OmniAction Nutrition topic, Advisory Group meeting
2022-05-11 16:00 - 17:00
Progressing the indicators and weightings for the OmniFramework Nutrition topic

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For those interested in the development of OmniAction’s Nutrition indicators, and how they will be weighted.
It will be of interest to those working in Sustainable Diets as well as Nutrition, along with those interested in multi-criteria measures in food systems. OmniAction’s framework encompasses the environmental, social and nutritional impacts of agriculture and food.
You’ll find the proposed agenda at the Eventbrite page where you register. To contribute to the agenda ahead of time please email lise@omniaction.org.
Everyone registered via this link will receive the Zoom link for the meeting just ahead of time – please do keep an eye out in case it lands in your Spam folder.
Do feel free to forward this invitation to peers for whom it may be of interest – OmniAction’s momentum and credibility is very much due to its inclusivity, allowing ready access to the best science and expertise.
In advance please do take a look at the OmniAction Charter. The Nutrition topic which we shall discuss is at 6.4 on page 25: https://omniaction.org/resources/the-omniaction-charter-of-global-food-impacts/

OmniAction's Environment topic for Life Cycle Assessment practitioners
2022-03-29 15:00 - 16:00
We will be holding our first Advisory Group meeting via Zoom on Tuesday March 29th at 3pm UK time. Led by our co-founder Anya Doherty, founder and CEO of Foodsteps, it will be of interest to environmental impact Life Cycle Assessment practitioners, in particular. It could also serve as a useful introduction to our research and science-led community members who are interested in the intersection of Environment and Nutrition.
All those registered via our Join Us page https://omniaction.org/join-us/ will receive the Zoom link.
The draft agenda
1/ Introduction to the OmniAction topics and indicators.
2/ Discussion of the draft sections of OmniAction’s upcoming Charter addressing the environment, attached.
3/ Exploration of whether this could be improved, ie, in particular the table: Environmental impact categories, and column: Likeliness of inclusion for first assessment guidance.
4/ First steps toward improving the reference methodology for those indicators where is it graded as Low.

OmniAction introduction via Zoom to stakeholders
2022-01-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Register here to meet the launch team behind OmniAction and learn more about how you can participate.
OmniAction is a new not-for-profit which will produce a unified global framework measuring the health and sustainability impacts of the food system. This science-based, verified and independent framework will be made available as a public good to all actors across global agrifood.
It’s a unified repository for data collection and analysis, monitoring all relevant human rights impacts of the food system. Namely across: nutrition, food safety, environmental impact, land sovereignty and labour rights.
It will oversee independent monitoring and verification. Future uses of the framework are expected to include benchmarking, integration into policy-driven data collection, and a consumer-facing front of pack label, an Omnilabel.
OmniAction began as a campaign by food systems B2B title Quota.Media in connection to the UN Food Systems Summit. This success saw advocacy turn into action – hence OmniAction.
Further background:

UN FSS proposal
Pre-Food Systems Summit event
UN Food Systems Summit side event

Sign up here to join the event on January 27th.
