City of Milan

Expected Annual Projected Benefits

25,500 tCO2eq

REDUCTION IN GHG EMISSIONS

8,290,900 US$

EXPENDITURES SAVED

139,863 US$

BENEFITS INCREASE

120.28

PREVENTED DEATHS

48.73

JOBS GENERATED

Actions commited

Action 1.1

Create a working group/Department responsible for coordinating sustainable and healthy food policies within local government, ensuring transversal cooperation between at least the following municipal departments: economic development, health, environment, education, security, social rights and equality, in order to strengthen the agro-ecological transition, provide multilevel policy coherence, whilst ensuring urban/rural partnership.

Action 1.2

Strengthen stable partnerships and cooperation between local administrations and civil society, community organisations, business sectors and other stakeholders committed to ensuring the right to food for all, through the co-production of just, healthy, nutritious and sustainable food policies.

Action 1.3

Actively work with international platforms and networks and commit to declarations of action aimed at improving the sustainability of local food systems (such as MUFPP, C40, national networks or/and Glasgow Food and Climate Declaration).

Action 1.6

Commit to a quantitative reduction in GHG emissions in the agri-food system by 2030.

Action 2.1

Procure Planetary Health Diet alignment of compliant foods for all public sector catering (school canteens, hospitals and other public bodies).

Action 3.2

Enhance community food initiatives by providing access to collective facilities (community kitchens, food hubs, etc.) to promote the management of and access to sustainable food and healthy diets for all, as well as supporting local production and consumption networks (food cooperatives, buying groups, etc.).

Action 3.3

Ensure wide access to local and organic food through public food procurement policies, founded on the Planetary Health Diet or a similar one.

Action 4.2

Promote multifunctional peri-urban agricultural parks that incorporate land banks, farm business incubators and community seed banks, which will promote sustainable agri-food production and boost local food supply.

Action 5.2

Provide public and accessible spaces for the distribution of local, nutritious and organic produce: wholesale, municipal or farmers markets; local food networks; small food retailers, etc.

Action 6.4

Support the development of composting systems (to obtain organic fertiliser), systems that transform urban food waste into animal feed, and/or energy recovery plants (through which biogas and biomethane can be obtained).

Targeted inputs

Overall aspiration of the food policies committed to The Barcelona Challenge.