Quick Take — Lack of coordination on issues concerning agriculture, energy and fisheries generate GDP losses of $25 trillion/year

their actions fuel interconnected crises in nature, climate and human health, according to an international report on biodiversity science policy For example, unsustainable agricultural practices may increase yields in the short term, but overuse of chemical inputs causes runoff pollution, which damages downstream water quality and increases human health burdens, including water-borne diseases… Biodiversity is declining at a rate of between 2 and 6 per cent per decade, weakening ecosystems that underpin food security and climate resilience, according to IPBES scientists. In addition, extreme weather events related to climate change have caused 12,000 disasters in the last 50 years, causing $4.3 trillion in damage, with 90 per cent of the effects falling on low-income countries.

Quick Take — Perrier risks losing the natural mineral water label that has made it famous for over a century

A confidential report by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Occitania, obtained by Le Monde and Radio France’s investigation unit, leaves little room for another result. Concluded in August, after an inspection carried out at the end of May on Perrier’s only packaging site, in Vergèze, Gard, the mission considers that Nestlé Waters, owner of the brand, should seriously consider ‘ceasing production of “mineral water” at the Vergèze site’ due to the regular deterioration of the sanitary quality of its catchment areas and, in particular, a virological risk.

The Esselunga brand: its beginnings and development up to 2003

In 1995, we are also able to achieve profitability for all our products and categories with industrial accounting: this allows us to better target contracts, through buyers and sales in supermarkets, with the help of the marketing department. The three functions - purchasing, marketing and sales - are fundamental to the implementation and profitability of the company's brand, whose operating result, from the 1990s to the early 2000s, is multiplied by 2.5

Quick Take — Nestlé wants to spin off its water division and Unilever wants to sell its ice creams

Nestlé’s sales growth forecast for 2024 – after two cuts – fell to 2%. Emerging markets are not what they used to be. Products have reached a reasonable penetration and local brands are increasingly formidable competitors. In fact, Nestlé’s sales growth in emerging markets, at almost 12 per cent in 2012, will drop to around 4 per cent this year. P.S.. : All the Italian press failed to report the water fraud perpetrated by Nestlé in France.

On Unilever read here: the ice cream business – which accounts for about 16 per cent of total sales – as part of CEO Hein Schumacher’s turnaround plan, also includes cutting 7,500 jobs, mostly in Europe for now does not meet the interest of large private equity groups

The Mediterranean is one of the most polluted areas in the world. The report: ‘Up to 23 metres of coastline eroded, beaches and cities at risk’

What perhaps worries the experts most, however, is the speed at which the sea level is rising: about 2.8 mm per year, twice the 20th century average. The trend is expected to continue at a rate that will depend on future greenhouse gas emissions. By the end of the century, sea levels could rise by more than a metre, leading to increased coastal flooding. “Relative sea level rise has already increased the frequency of flooding in the historic centre of Venice,” confirms the report