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M E A S U R I N G A N D TA C K L I N G L O N D O N ' S F O O D R E L AT E D E M I S S I O N S Mark Ainsbury, Principal Policy Officer, Food, GLA Matthew Thomas, Principal Policy Officer, Energy and Climate Change, GLA October 2015 CONTENT

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M E A S U R I N G A N D TA C K L I N G L O N D O N ' S F O O D R E L AT E D E M I S S I O N S

Mark Ainsbury, Principal Policy Officer, Food, GLA Matthew Thomas, Principal Policy Officer, Energy and Climate

Change, GLA October 2015

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Greater London Authority

– Context and stats

Introduction to food in London
Indirect emissions – PAS2070 and food
Measuring food emissions and why it’s

important

CONTENT

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Greater London Authority (GLA)
Established in 1999 and now led by Mayor Boris

Johnson

Responsible for strategic planning and sets budget

for:

– Transport for London – Metropolitan Police Authority – London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority – Olympic Legacy Development Corporation

LONDON GOVERNMENT

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33 LOCAL AUTHORITIES

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SOME IMPORTANT STATS

8.5m people
1623 km2
3.2 million homes
432,000 businesses
GVA 22.2% of UK - grew by 4.0% in 2013
Size of the economy = £338.4 billion
5.6m jobs
~40MtCO2

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T H E F O O D B O A R D H A S H E L P E D L O N D O N TO L E A D T H E WAY …

www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/London's%20Food-Emissions.pdf

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London’s Food Sector GHG Study 2008, by Brook Lyndhurst for Greater London Authority

Ground-breaking and thought-provoking - showed for

first time nature and scale of food contribution to capital’s GHG emissions

Food was responsible at that time for 19 million tonnes

CO2 equivalent per annum (11 million of which CO 2) at every stage of food system: production to retail, food service, storage, preparation and disposal

Inspired us to commission work on Scope 3 (Indirect)

Emissions to find out more about London’s wider food impacts

O U R F I R S T W O R K O N L O N D O N F O O D G H G E M I S S I O N S

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THE PAS 2070

data.london.gov.uk

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A robust and transparent method for

consistent, comparable and relevant quantification, attribution and reporting of city-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

Applicable to any city/urban area, worldwide
Uses two different but complementary

methods:

– Direct plus supply chain – Consumption based

WHAT IS PAS 2070?

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EMISSION BOUNDARIES

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TOTAL EMISSIONS

Food and drink: 13% Food and drink: 10%

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Cradle to gate GHG emissions:
Includes GHG emissions from supply of food and

drink consumed by city residents only.

Consumption by visitors to the city is excluded

(balanced by the inclusion of consumption by residents when they are outside of the city)

Assumes GHG emissions from the food and drink

life cycles correlate well with expenditure on food and drink.

ECONOMIC FINAL CONSUMPTION

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Commercial food production

– Identify farmed area and number of livestock – Disaggregate farmed area by crop type

Non-commercial

– Identify all growing spaces in London – Assume area used for growing (number, size, % used for growing) – Identify common types of home grown crops and assume average yield factors

…WHICH CONTAINS

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EMISSIONS

All data, calculations and assumptions available on

London Datastore. Search Application of PAS2070

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EMISSIONS IN DETAIL

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Results can be used by the GLA and Food

Board to:

– Focus resources on working with key food sectors – Influence policy such as the London Plan – Provide evidence to communicate to consumers and influence practice

Importance of household consumption

SO WHAT?

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London aims to lead the way with cities around the

world

We are working with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership

Group, and with the City of Milan (host of EXPO 2015)

n an Urban Food Policy Pact – a world food policy for

cities – involving dozens of cities across the globe

We are basing our discourse on food policies on three

axes: nutrition, environment and access to food.

Pact launched earlier this year as part of finale of Expo

2015

N E X T S T E P S : A G L O B A L U R B A N F O O D P O L I C Y

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In early 2016 we aim to study one London

borough in more detail to:

– provide an up to date assessment of the food Ecological Footprint and carbon emissions; – undertake research in the Borough to complete a comprehensive ‘food mapping and access’ analysis

f existing outlets, households, flows and nodes;

– model and build scenarios of what would need to be done to reduce food carbon emissions and Footprints by X amounts over a 5, 10, 15 and 20 year period, including food ‘infrastructure’

NEXT STEPS: LOCAL

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