Surat Municipal Corporation
Expected Annual Projected Benefits
3,330,000
tCO
2
eq
REDUCTION IN GHG EMISSIONS
1,672,940,000
US$
EXPENDITURES SAVED
309,926,000
US$
BENEFITS INCREASE
3,537.5
PREVENTED DEATHS
445
JOBS GENERATED
105,000,000
m
3
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 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 2.4
Promote the adoption of the Planetary Health Diet or a similar one in the hospitality sector by putting sustainable and healthy food on the menu of hotels, restaurants and cafés, and in the food service industry as a whole.
Action 2.5
Ban or limit advertisement on unhealthy foods and also ban or limit exposure to unhealthy foods (i.e. healthy food environments around schools).
Action 3.1
Enable access to local, sustainable and/or organic food in social food provision facilities such as food banks, community kitchens, social supermarkets, delivery services for the vulnerable, voucher schemes, in line with the requirements of the Planetary Health Diet or a similar diet.
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 6.1
Organise communication campaigns to encourage consumers to change their habits in order to prevent food loss and waste.
Action 6.3
Implement distinct food waste collection systems in hotels, restaurants, the catering sector, schools, hospitals and households, by introducing the necessary logistical developments. Ensure clear information and specific infrastructure (bins, compostable bags, etc.), particularly at the early stages of implementation in order to facilitate the adoption of the scheme.
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.
nº residents assuming the Planetary Health Diet.
2,500,000
nº residents shifting to an organic diet.
500,000
nº residents consuming food regionally and locally produced.
3,200,000
nº residents shifting to an organic and regionally/locally produced diet.
300,000
nº of agricultural hectares converted to organic farming schemes in the City-Region.
800,000
nº of residents adjusting food intake and assuming food waste reduction options.
3,500,000
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