Brighton & Hove City Council

The actions we track

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

  7.00Supporting

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

  5.00Supporting

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

  4.00Supporting

• Education in schools to reduce animal-based food consumption (curriculum/resources/programmes)

  3.00Supporting

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

  2.71Supporting

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

  1.19Supporting

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

  1.04Supporting

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

  0.76Supporting

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

  0.00Neutral

• Catering contract specifications require plant-based default options and minimum plant-based share

  0.00Neutral

• 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

• Divestment from animal agriculture / livestock-heavy investments

  0.00Neutral

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

  0.00Neutral

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

  0.00Neutral

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

  0.00Neutral

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

  0.00Neutral

• Plant-based catering requirements for major venues & events

  0.00Neutral

• Plant-based options standards for social care, care homes & NHS settings

  0.00Neutral

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

  0.00Neutral

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

  0.00Neutral

• Regional food strategy coordination group / food partnership

  0.00Neutral

• Repurpose council farmland/grazing land to nature recovery (rewilding/woodland creation/habitat restoration)

  0.00Neutral