Getty Images The Pacific Coast of North America represents the world’s fifth largest economy, a region of 55 million people with a combined GDP of $3 trillion. But like most of the world, it has a big food waste problem. The Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC) has joined key players from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, and the cities of Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles to build a low-carbon economy, and food waste is one of its main focuses. Pete Pearson, senior director of Food Loss and Waste, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and lead of the Pacific Coast Collaborative Food Waste Reduction executive committee, discusses how the PCC is going about reaching for its ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least 80% by 2050—specifically focusing on how businesses and government have begun working together to attack the food waste piece.