FAO honors Premium Food Group's climate platform
A special moment: The Premium Food Group was honored for its meat climate platform during the conference. The award was presented as part of the "Recognition of Good Practices and Innovations" program, through which the FAO recognizes global approaches that measurably contribute to more efficient, inclusive, and resilient livestock farming.
The Meat Climate Platform enables farms to record their individual carbon footprint, compare it with benchmarks, and derive targeted measures in the areas of animal health, feeding, and management. A prototype was developed – together with partners – into an industry solution through the QS auditing company, enabling scalability and broad comparability.
"The award in Rome is a boost for consistent implementation: Good approaches must be visible, financially viable, and globally applicable. The FAO has set a clear framework for this – from One Health to climate protection", explained Dr. Gereon Schulze Althoff, Head of Sustainability at the Premium Food Group.
In a plenary session of the conference, Schulze Althoff discussed with experts from Brazil, India, Indonesia, and the USA how innovations can be unleashed and scaled along the entire livestock farming value chain for greater climate protection. "Sector-wide approaches are preferable. Market leaders have a responsibility to enable these and not sacrifice long-term potential for their own short-term advantages", emphasized Schulze Althoff. "If we have a well-accepted measurement basis, technical innovations will become visible – especially when they are linked to national inventory data".
Global context: Efficiency and sustainability as key
The FAO predicts a global increase in demand for milk, meat, and eggs of over 20 percent by 2050 compared to 2020. To meet this demand within ecological limits, livestock farming systems must become demonstrably more efficient and sustainable. This is precisely where the Climate Platform Meat comes in: It creates transparency about emissions, identifies reduction pathways, and embeds improvements directly into farm operations.
Schulze Althoff: "The FAO conference in Rome has shown that the transformation of livestock farming is possible – if innovations, partnerships, and scientifically sound instruments such as the Climate Platform Meat are consistently used".
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