Can Stockholmers Eat Green? Implementing a Sustainable City Food Programme
For our first EHL seminar of the semester we will hear from Annika Jacobson and Johanna Sandahl from the City of Stockholm on their current work on implementing a citywide food programme in Stockholm. A program that aims to provide its residents with healthy food with low environmental and climate impact. In the seminar, we will discuss how to approach such a program, what it entails and how can such city food programs can be implemented.
In the City of Stockholm, a proposal for a new citywide food programme is currently under consideration. The programme aims to strengthen the city’s work on providing good, healthy food with low environmental and climate impact, both within public meals and for the city’s residents. It also has a clear link to the city’s environmental programme, which includes quantified targets such as reducing consumption-based emissions.
To achieve goals related to reduced environmental and climate impact and improved public health, people’s eating habits need to change, beyond public meals. But what can the city do about that? How can we measure whether interventions have an effect? What is relevant to measure? Are there alternative ways to approach the issue beyond using environmental and health arguments? Are there desirable synergies between shifts in dietary practices and other behavioural changes that affect consumption-based emissions or environmental impacts more broadly?
Participants: Annika Jacobson (special coordinator for climate action) and Johanna Sandahl (strategist for resilient food systems), City of Stockholm Executive Office.
