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Households across all continents wasted over 1 billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity. Food waste continues to hurt the global economy and fuel climate change, nature loss, and pollution. These are the key findings of a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report published today, ahead of the International Day of Zero Waste.
As the climate crisis worsens, it is vital for corporate broadcast TV networks ABC, CBS, and NBC to cover the issue with the urgency and attention that it deserves. As part of this coverage, these networks should also be communicating climate solutions to their viewers. More and more people are becoming aware of the climate issue and what causes it, but how to address or solve it is also an important part of the story. Over the years, these networks have been getting better at covering climate change. In fact, 2022 was their best-performing year ever in terms of quantity of coverage: Morning news shows, nightly news shows, and Sunday morning political shows aired a record of nearly 23 hours of climate coverage. (This coverage, however, represented just 1.3% of the approximately 107,000 minutes of overall broadcast news programming in 2022.) Solutions coverage has been slowly improving as well. In 2020, climate solutions were mentioned in just 29% of these networks’ climate coverag