On 21 May 2021, the G7 adopted a joint Climate and Environment Ministers Communiqué with commitments to put climate, biodiversity, and the environment at the heart of their COVID-19 recovery strategies and investments. Through this Communiqué, the G7 recognise the need to increase global ambition and enhance international cooperation to tackle the global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. The G7 call on all countries to join them in taking urgent, ambitious and concrete action.

The Communiqué addresses issues related to sustainable development, the transition to a net zero economy, clean energy, clean mobility, resource efficiency, ocean action, food systems and food loss and waste prevention and reduction, as well as the delivery of decent green jobs and the role of finance to support the green recovery. Regarding food loss and waste, the G7 acknowledge the importance of taking action against it in order to improve food security, mitigate climate change and land degradation and protect biodiversity. The G7 reaffirm commitment to achieve Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3 and commit to utilise a ‘Target, Measure, Act’ approach and establish national targets to reach that goal. They welcome the upcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021, while also outlining the importance of food loss and waste measurement activities, the need for actions that promote sustainable and circular food systems, the role of innovation, as well as the attention that public education and behaviour change programmes merit.

Alongside this Communiqué, the G7 Alliance for Resource Efficiency published a 'best practice' booklet in order to further highlight the importance of reducing household food waste. The publication includes contributions from G7 countries and the EU, which features work carried out on the topic under the Circular Economy Action Plan and the Farm to Fork Strategy, including the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste and its recommendations for action.