Barcelona

Expected Annual Projected Benefits

286,225 tCO2eq

REDUCTION IN GHG EMISSIONS

157,651,000 US$

EXPENDITURES SAVED

53,985,500 US$

BENEFITS INCREASE

331.11

PREVENTED DEATHS

60.85

JOBS GENERATED

5,700,000 m3

SAVED WATER

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 1.4

Reinforce municipal commitments by establishing a roadmap to ensure access to sustainable food and diets for all, with a particular focus on food-vulnerable people, to be implemented once a state of climate emergency has been declared.

Action 1.5

Embed food and climate nexus in existing municipal policies, plans and strategies.

Action 2.1

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

Action 2.2

Run campaigns to raise public awareness and to commit residents to the Planetary Health Diet or a similar diet based on locally produced, sustainable and healthy food, rich in plant-based foods (fruit, vegetables, cereals, legumes and nuts), with a reduced consumption of meat and dairy and ultra-processed food high in fat, sugar and salt.

Action 2.3

Encourage distinction of types of livestock production systems (industrial, agroecological) and their impact on the environment, landscape, health, etc.

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 4.4

Promote green infrastructure networks, open spaces and ecological corridors (hedges, urban gardens, etc.) that are connected to sustainable urban and rural agricultural activities.

Action 5.1

Organise and activate the necessary logistics, infrastructure and resources to supply, distribute and prepare local, nutritious and organic food, in line with the right to food guidelines and the Planetary Health Diet or a similar diet for the needs of public food procurement (school canteens, hospitals and other public bodies).

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 5.3

Produce updated maps and online directories of local agro-ecological food supply chain actors, including producers, processing units and distribution points.

Action 6.1

Organise communication campaigns to encourage consumers to change their habits in order to prevent food loss and waste.

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).

Action 6.5

Support business initiatives that reduce packing, promote the reuse of packaging and develop and use sustainable packaging alternatives that reduce plastics throughout the food supply chain.

Targeted inputs

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

nº residents assuming the Planetary Health Diet.

234,000

nº residents shifting to an organic diet.

154,210

nº residents consuming food regionally and locally produced.

204,800

nº residents shifting to an organic and regionally/locally produced diet.

107,947

nº of agricultural hectares converted to organic farming schemes in the City-Region.

135,247

nº of municipal, non-sedentary and farmers market promoted by the local authority.

8

nº of residents adjusting food intake and assuming food waste reduction options.

190,000