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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

  1. 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

  2. CONTENT • Greater London Authority – Context and stats • Introduction to food in London • Indirect emissions – PAS2070 and food • Measuring food emissions and why it’s important

  4. LONDON GOVERNMENT • 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

  5. 33 LOCAL AUTHORITIES

  6. SOME IMPORTANT STATS • 8.5m people • 1623 km 2 • 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 • ~40MtCO 2 6

  8. 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

  9. 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 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 CO 2 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

  10. THE PAS 2070 data.london.gov.uk

  11. WHAT IS PAS 2070? • 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

  12. EMISSION BOUNDARIES

  13. TOTAL EMISSIONS Food and Food and drink: 13% drink: 10%

  14. ECONOMIC FINAL CONSUMPTION • 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.

  15. …WHICH CONTAINS • 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

  16. EMISSIONS  All data, calculations and assumptions available on London Datastore. Search Application of PAS2070

  17. EMISSIONS IN DETAIL

  18. SO WHAT? • 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

  19. 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 • 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) on 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

  20. NEXT STEPS: LOCAL • 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 of 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’

  21. Thank you Mark.ainsbury@london.gov.uk Matthew.thomas@london.gov.uk

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