Terms
The average weather conditions over a long period of time
What is Climate?
This is a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. It brings together hundreds of the world's top companies to accelerate joint action, cross-sector collaboration, and responsible change
What is Climate Pledge?
Largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States
What is transportation?
WFM is has a goal of 50% food waste reduction by this year?
What is 2030?
WFM Program that includes Team Members in generating ideas, educating other TMs and boosting store execution around food waste, compostables & recyclables
What is Green Mission ?
Increase concentration of these will trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. This trapped energy comes from incoming solar radiation absorbed by the earth’s surface and re-radiated back into the atmosphere as infrared energy.
What is Greenhouse Gases?
Legally Binding International Treaty on Climate Change. Its overarching goal is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”
What is the Paris Agreement?
Amazon's delivery system has three stages — these are their names
What are First Mile, Middle Mile, and Last Mile?
Our First Waste Management strategy is to _____________ food waste by preventing it from ever happening with inventory and ordering management, as well as in-store systems for using Produce culls in added-value products and Culinary applications.
What is Decrease ?
Program created to expand capacity and capability for community-based food rescue organizations to move food from where it’s available to where it’s needed most. Through this program, Whole Foods Market funds the purchase of refrigerated vans for food-recovery organizations so they can transport food back to their communities.
What is Nourishing Our Neighborhoods ?
Rapid Increase in Earth's Average Surface temperature over the past century
What is Global Warming?
This is an approach to agriculture that considers a farm’s ability to both adapt to and mitigate climate change.
Benefits include
Increased biodiversity
More resilient farms and better soil
Climate and ecosystem health.
What is Climate Smart Agriculture?
This stage of Amazon's delivery moves packages between Amazon buildings using planes, ships, trains, and trucks.
What is Middle Mile?
Our second Waste Management strategy is to _______ all edible food waste fit for human consumption to food banks and food rescue organizations in the store’s local community.
What is Donate?
Amazon asks the companies it buys from (called suppliers) to follow these three steps to cut pollution.
What are Set Targets, Share Progress, and Reduce Emissions?
The variety of plant and animal life in the world, affected by climate change
The Climate Pledge's 2040 goal is this many years EARLIER than the Paris Agreement's goal.
What is 10 years?
By 2025, Amazon hit a big goal of putting over 10,000 electric vehicles on the road in this country.
What is India?
Our Third Waste Management Strategy is to _______ inedible food waste, keeping it out of landfills through diversion streams such as composting, providing it to farmers for animal feed or sending to anaerobic digestion facilities (which transforms waste into biogas for fuel, heat or electricity).
What is Divert?
The way we grow and make food is responsible for this percentage of the world's total pollution from greenhouse gases — that's why Whole Foods Market matters!
What is 20–30%?
Refers to a state in which the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere are balanced by removal out of the atmosphere.
What is Net-Zero Carbon?
In 2024, Amazon kept this much of its trash OUT of landfills by recycling or reusing it.
What is 85%?
In the First Mile stage, Amazon is testing this kind of ship that creates less pollution.
What is a methanol-powered vessel (a ship that runs on a cleaner fuel)?
To minimize food waste in our stores and keep waste that cannot be avoided out of landfills, Whole Foods Market uses a three-part strategy to “D___, D___, D___” in that order of priority.
What is Decrease, Donate & Divert?
First of its kind food recycler that will reduce in-store food waste and turn it into nutrient rich chicken feed intended for WFM's private label egg suppliers?
What is Mill Commercial?