to take just one example ongoing work is focusing on the environmental footprint of global food waste early results suggest that the carbon footprint of food produced but not consumed is billion tonnes c eqa representing around of total global ghg emissions were such emissions generated by a country that country would be the world s thirdlargest ghg emitter behind only the us and china extending that to waste and resource management in a broader sense would significantly increase the potential to to or perhaps even more if waste prevention was also included as shown in figure most of the sites are in africa asia and latin americacaribbean with two in europe