Belfast City Council

The actions we track

• Endorse/Adopt Plant-Based Treaty (motion/committee decision)

  7.00Supporting

• Join/Sign Plant-Based Treaty (membership/pledge)

  7.00Supporting

• Regional food strategy coordination group / food partnership

  4.88Supporting

• Adopt a funded Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) programme for climate mitigation/adaptation with measurable targets

  4.00Supporting

• Adopt plant-forward / plant-based procurement policy

  4.00Supporting

• Farmer transition grants/advice to shift from livestock to horticulture and plant-protein crops

  4.00Supporting

• Include livestock methane in carbon budgets and climate targets; mandatory livestock methane reporting

  4.00Supporting

• Plant-based catering requirements for major venues & events

  4.00Supporting

• Declare a climate emergency (including explicit recognition of food-system emissions and plant-based transition)

  3.83Supporting

• Shift policy support from monoculture toward diversified agroecological/veganic/regenerative farming (permaculture principles)

  3.05Supporting

• Urban biodiversity programme (trees, wildflowers, green roofs, wildlife corridors, green community projects)

  3.00Supporting

• Rewilding and land restoration payments/subsidies for former livestock land

  0.69Supporting

• Allocate land/allotments for community food growing and plant-rich diets (edible gardens, veg growing)

  0.65Supporting

• Plant-based options offered in council catering/venues (non-default)

  0.21Supporting

• Targeted plant-based food voucher / cash-first support to reduce food insecurity

  0.15Supporting

• Reform farm subsidies and agri-environment schemes to reward reduced livestock density and shift to horticulture/plant-protein crops

  0.05Neutral

• Create nature recovery network (wildlife corridors/pollinator habitat) on former grazing or feed-crop land

  0.00Neutral

• Designate and convert Marine Protected Areas into fully protected no-take / HPMA zones

  0.00Neutral

• Endorse Plant-Based Treaty / commit to national plant-based food transition

  0.00Neutral

• Establish a Food Transition Partnership / Food Policy Council with plant-based transition remit

  0.00Neutral

• Food security priority policy (ending poverty/hunger; nutritious food accessible for all)

  0.00Neutral

• Green bonds and transition finance for plant-based food system shift

  0.00Neutral

• Integrate plant-based nutrition into JSNA / public health strategy

  0.00Neutral

• Map and support plant-protein processing infrastructure (pulses, legumes) and value chains

  0.00Neutral

• Peatland/wetland restoration (re-wetting, grazing-pressure reduction) on council land

  0.00Neutral

• Plant-based default in school meals; revise school food standards to require plant-based options

  0.00Neutral

• Prevent conversion of cropland to animal feed crops (feed maize/soya)

  0.00Neutral

• Provide stewardship subsidies for landowners/farmers restoring ecosystem services (carbon, biodiversity, flood defence)

  0.00Neutral

• Public awareness campaigns for food transition (reduce meat/dairy, plant-rich)

  0.00Neutral

• Shift land ownership/control into community hands for green space, reforestation, and community food gardens (asset transfer/CLTs/right-to-buy where applicable)

  0.00Neutral

• Support programme for food businesses to transition to plant-based offerings

  0.00Neutral

• Divestment from animal agriculture / livestock-heavy investments

  -1.36Opposing