Edinburgh City Council

The actions we track

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

  7.00Supporting

• Regional food strategy coordination group / food partnership

  5.00Supporting

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

  5.00Supporting

• Adopt plant-forward / plant-based procurement policy

  4.00Supporting

• Plant-based catering requirements for major venues & events

  4.00Supporting

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

  4.00Supporting

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

  3.52Supporting

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

  3.46Supporting

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

  2.79Supporting

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

  2.15Supporting

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

  1.81Supporting

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

  1.45Supporting

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

  1.42Supporting

• Staff training on inclusive catering (cultural diets, vegan/vegetarian)

  1.18Supporting

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

  1.06Supporting

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

  0.92Supporting

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

  0.61Supporting

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

  0.56Supporting

• Targets for plant-based/plant-rich procurement in public catering

  0.51Supporting

• Workforce training for plant-based public catering & food service

  0.22Supporting

• Divestment from animal agriculture / livestock-heavy investments

  0.00Neutral

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

  0.00Neutral

• Prioritize plant-based/vegan traders in markets & licensing

  0.00Neutral

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

  -0.19Opposing

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

  -0.32Opposing

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

  -0.55Neutral