Escalating tariffs could lead to higher prices at supermarkets and restaurants globally, with everyday consumers shouldering the tab. But there’s a simple remedy for rising food costs that many governments and companies aren’t thinking about: reducing food waste. 

Tariffs and food waste might sound like apples and oranges. But the sheer volume of food that goes uneaten (about 40%) represents a massive opportunity to boost supply and push prices down. What’s more, there are already proven solutions to do so.

Ongoing drought in Iraq has forced thousands of families to flee once-fertile farmland in search of water, food and work. And such threats are only rising: WRI data shows that a quarter of the world’s crops are grown in areas where water is now highly stressed, highly unreliable or both.

Despite global pledges to curb methane emissions, most countries and companies have yet to demonstrate real progress, according to a new report. Agriculture is the biggest source and one of the most difficult to tackle. But a few solutions, from better breeding to cow-burp vaccines, show promise.

"After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea," says Sir David Attenborough of his new documentary, Ocean. Indeed, WRI research shows that a healthy ocean is essential to our own health and wellbeing — and that it can play a bigger role in fighting climate change than we once thought.

Ocean-based climate solutions could deliver over a third (35%) of the emissions cuts needed by 2050 to hold long-term global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F).