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Food Working Group Goals and Strategies Consumption Advisory Group Austin Community Climate Plan 2020 Revision Background City of Austin – Equity Statement Goals of this Revision Mission Statement To protect and improve Austin’s quality of life now and for future generations by leading efforts to achieve: 1. Net-zero community-wide greenhouse gas emissions 2. A healthy & just local food system 3. A climate resilient and adaptive city Process overview and schedule What’s new in the revision Last Time Refresh ● Eye on the prize: community-wide net- zero carbon by 2050 ● Alignment with other plans ● Co-created with staff and community leadership ● Equity focus ● Smaller number of high-impact actions ● Refined topic areas ● New consumption-based emissions lens ● Formal integration of natural systems and carbon sequestration ● Shared responsibility to reach beyond City-controlled activities Process overview and schedule Structure Large Institutions Working Group Steering Committee Transportation Electrification AG Transportation and Land Use AG Sustainable Buildings AG Consumption Natural Systems AG AG Community Climate Ambassadors Going Forward The Next 5 Months July - REVIEWS August - Boards and Commissions Review and Public Comment September - Finalization and take to Council for Approval June - Full 1st Draft of the Plan May 2020 Jun 2020 Jul 2020 Aug 2020 Sep 2020 ID Goals & Strategies Draft Plan Plan Finalization Consumption: Food Advisory Groups Goal Areas for all 5 Sections of the Plan Sustainable Buildings • Building Materials • Energy • Water • Refrigerants Transportation and Land Use • • • • • • Increase Transit Ridership Increase People Powered Transit Right to Stay / Return Affordable Housing Transit Oriented Development Access to Open Space Transportation Electrification Consumption of Goods • • • Vehicle Adoption Charging Infrastructure Emerging Issues • • • Food Consumer Goods Institutional Purchasing Natural Systems • Natural Lands • Private Property • Working Lands • Public Urban Landscapes Advisory Groups Food Working Group Members Lisa Barden • • Molly Costigan • Jennifer Cregar • Ricardo Guerrero • Christine Jovanovic • Kat Lopez • Madison Matteus • • • Ona McGovern • Samantha Night • Amanda Rohlich Karen Magid Cavan Merski Goal GOAL 1 (Pro-climate, Pro-Health Food System) By 2030, ensure 100% of Austinites, with a focus on the food insecure, can access a pro-climate, pro-health food system built for equity and resilience. A pro-climate, pro-health food system is community-driven, prioritizes regenerative agriculture, supports dietary and health agency, prefers plant- based over animal-based foods, and minimizes food waste. Community-driven means located in, initiated, led, and evaluated by low-income communities and communities of color, with explicit mechanisms for soliciting community input, developing within-community leaders, and sharing outcomes within and outside the community. Strategy 1 Food Strategy 1 Apply a purchasing framework, support supply-chain infrastructure, and build a regional food system network to bolster institutional and corporate food procurement of pro-climate, pro-health options. Implementation Suggestions 1. Using the Good Food Purchasing Program as a model, engage food purchasers locally, especially large institutional purchasers, to use value-based food procurement practices, ensuring participation of the 10 food procurers who have the largest food spends. 2. Offer a certification program to recognize institutional and corporate pro-climate, pro-health menus. 3. Support a regional food hub and regional food system network to facilitate and coordinate large- scale pro-health and pro-climate food purchasing and distribution from regenerative agricultural producers. Strategy 2 Food Strategy 2 Increase the availability and accessibility of pro-climate and pro-health foods through community-driven food solutions by providing and equitably allocating funding sufficient to reach the goal of full access for all. Implementation Suggestions 1. Develop/Support/Implement economic incentives for those offering an increasing minimum percentage of plant-based menu choices, at least XX% menu items by 2030. 2. Develop funding programs focused on organizations/community initiatives led by people of color, 3. especially women of color, to support creative thinking and innovation in the food system, specifically as it pertains to food access and security. Implement a voluntary program (modeled after Zero Foodprint) for commercial food businesses to generate funds to support local food organizations and producers promoting a pro-health and pro- climate food system. 4. Co-create community and City evaluation criteria and accountability metrics Strategy 3 Food Strategy 3 Implement community-driven programs to incentivize and promote more affordable and culturally relevant pro-health, pro-climate choices in prepared and retail food options, with a focus on minimizing displacement. Implementation Suggestions 1. Develop/Support/Implement economic incentives for those offering an increasing minimum percentage of plant-based menu choices, at least XX% menu items by 2030. Implement a voluntary program (modeled after Zero Foodprint) for commercial food businesses to generate funds to support local food organizations and producers promoting a pro-health and pro-climate food system. 3. Ensure double dollars are accepted at all SNAP retail outlets 4. Develop programs that support online and delivery services for SNAP and WIC clients, and facilitate ease of use. Innovate ways to provide greater access to local produce for food insecure community members, such as a subsidized CSA model from regenerative ag producers who employ marginalized community members. 2. 5. Strategy 4 Food Strategy 4 Develop a variety of community-driven programs and tools to equitably engage and empower the full spectrum of Austin’s communities to make affordable and culturally relevant pro-health, pro-climate food choices. - Expand resources and tools to make empowered decisions based on the impact of meat consumption on the climate and the benefits of plant-based foods grown through regenerative practices. - Promote tools that enhance product transparency and empower consumer choice through tools such as an app or labeling scheme that recognize pro-climate, pro-health foods. - Implementation Suggestions 1. Ensure diversity of engagement/outreach - not just technology 2. Promote school gardens and partner with K-12 education 3. Link to outreach and engagement on institutional purchasing 4. Specific examples include: 1. Program to recognize climate-friendly food options (green check mark similar to https://greenseal.org/about/faq) 2. App that scans and provides Life Cycle Analysis info for individual foods (bar or QR code) to inform about more sustainable choices and offer alternatives. Strategy 5 Food Strategy 5 Conduct a food waste “root cause analysis” and implement changes and new programs informed by the analysis to increase participation by 50% among all customer types (single-family home, multifamily, commercial) in food waste reduction strategies practices that prioritize the highest and best use according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Food Recovery Hierarchy. Implementation Suggestions 1. Source Reduction 2. Feed Hungry People 3. Feed Animals 4. Industrial Uses 5. Composting 1. App to track and encourage use of food before it spoils (i.e. "Too Good to Go," "Food Rescue") 1. Incentivize connection to food recovery organizations and donations for grocery/retail stores, restaurants, caterers, all food establishments. 1. Align with Austin Resource Recovery to promote citywide expansion of municipal composting especially for multi-family dwellings 2. Create/Support/Increase local markets for compost (thinking of the current huge increase in gardening, and attention on community and school gardens) and how a certified city compost could also help with best practices linking to food 3. collection standards Targets/Metrics - How will your goal and strategies be measured? To evaluate success towards the 2030 goal, we propose the following probative questions to assess alignment of the 2025 strategies with the core features of the desired food system: Community-driven – Are the strategies being pursued to achieve pro-climate, pro-health food access located in low-income communities and communities of color? Are the strategies initiated, led, and evaluated by low-income communities and communities of color? Do the strategies provide explicit mechanisms for soliciting community input? Do they develop and build capacity of local community leaders? Do they share outcomes within and outside the targeted communities? Prioritizes regenerative agriculture – Do the strategies provide access to foods produced using practices that build soil fertility and health, increase water percolation and retention, enhance biodiversity and ecosystem health and resiliency, and increase carbon held in soils and vegetation? Supports dietary and health agency – Do the strategies increase pro-climate, pro-health food options available to all of Austin, with a focus on communities with a present and past history of food insecurity? Prefers plant-based over animal-based foods – Do the strategies provide equitable access to plant- based foods? Do they encourage a shift towards plant-based diets that are aligned with cultural preferences and requirements? Minimizes food waste – Do the strategies decrease the percent and amount (tons) of organic waste being sent to area landfills? Is the reduction in line with the City’s zero waste goal and Austin Resource Recovery Master Plan? Are strategies aligned with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Food Recovery Hierarchy? Addressing equity - How will your goal and strategies advance racial equity? Addressing equity: How will your goal and strategies advance racial equity? The impacts of climate change are disproportionately felt by low-income communities and communities of color, as are high rates of chronic disease. By creating a food system that emphasizes equitable access, enhances community agency, empowers individual action, and requires institutional/organizational responsibility, health inequities may be reduced while empowering communities and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. By prioritizing community-driven action, we can harness and enhance the unique attributes of each community to power its own solutions, engaging and leveraging within-community assets (both human and organizational) to drive change. Racial and cultural factors shape barriers to pro-health, pro-climate food choices and must be the foundation of systemic solutions to overcome those barriers. The strategies included here provide a framework that reflects diverse needs within the local food system; builds from within communities rather than imposing on communities; and promotes equity across race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Partnerships Which partners will be needed to ensure success? Think: City department, community, and other agency partners. Achieving the goal of full access to an equitable, resilient, pro-health, and pro-climate food system will require sustained and likely enhanced participation from the existing network of actors upon which Austin’s local food system is built. These food providers, connectors, and other supporters have developed new ways of relating and delivering community services in light of the food insecurity and supply constraint challenges wrought by COVID-19. Our food system’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and the inequities that it has highlighted demonstrate the ingenuity for which Austin is known. The same creativity and passion will be required to unite diverse parties to build a more robust pro-climate, pro-health food system for all. Ideas for Potential Partners? Going Forward Thank you! http://austintexas.gov/climateplan - - - Public Meeting Schedule Link to public google drive Public participant list https://www.speakupaustin.org/community-climate-plan - Overview process - Public survey available Equity Tool Our Climate Equity Commitment Racial equity is the condition when race no longer predicts a person’s quality of life outcomes in our community. The City of Austin Climate Plan Revision Process recognizes that racial inequity is wrong and solving climate change is impossible without racial equity. In Austin, this means our Climate Plan Revision Process will only succeed if we center racial equity in the goals, strategies, and plans developed through the Revision Process. We realize that City of Austin infrastructure, policies, and investment have historically and systemically neglected and harmed low-income communities and communities of color. The City acknowledges these injustices and the need to right these wrongs by changing its institutions and creating a culture of equity. We recognize: - - - will worsen existing harms and challenges. the transition to a pollution-free society. impact all residents in the Austin area. Low-income communities and communities of color are the most impacted by extreme weather, and climate change Low-income communities and communities of color must be prioritized to receive the disproportionate benefits of If we design and implement programs to serve low-income communities and communities of color, we will positively Because of this, we have created the following themes and associated Equity Tool with Screening Questions to ensure our climate plan will increase racial equity: Health, Affordability, Accessibility, Just Transition, Community Capacity, Cultural Preservation & Accountability. Equity Evaluation Tool – link Health - Strategy improves health (physical and mental) outcomes for low-income communities and communities of color. The strategy upholds the fundamental human right to clean, healthy and adequate air, water, land, food, education, transportation, safety, and housing. Affordability - Strategy lowers and stabilizes costs related to basic living needs (housing, food, utilities, healthcare, transportation, etc.) for low-income communities and communities of color. Accessibility - Strategy increases access to jobs, housing, transportation, funding, education, healthy foods, and a clean environment for low-income communities and communities of color. Strategy removes barriers through city infrastructure, policy, and investments. Just Transition - Strategy ensures economic justice so that low-income communities and communities of color are prioritized in the benefits of the strategy and are protected from any potential negative consequences. Community Capacity- Strategy elevates the voices of low-income communities and communities of color by developing and strengthening the skills, abilities, and resources that a community needs to survive, adapt, and thrive. Cultural Preservation - Strategy deliberately and respectfully honors cultural relevance and history to maintain cultural heritage from the past and present for the benefit of all generations. Accountability - Strategy ensures that low-income communities and communities of color can hold governments and institutions accountable for equitable implementation. 22 Recommended process for advisory groups Please refer to the following 6 steps for building racial equity, adapted from GARE, as you develop goals and strategies: What is the history? Where are the inequities? Maps, data, stories Research the history of racial injustice relevant to this strategy to better understand the root causes Purpose: Inform/change the analyst’s historical frame of reference. What does the data tell us? Disaggregation by race, income and location (Research and collect data on racial disparities and identify those most impacted). Purposes: Change the information informing the proposal to identify disparities and those most impacted. What is the proposed goal? Does it include a climate and equity component? Develop Strategies How would we achieve this goal with history and disaggregated data in mind? Who will own this strategy, who needs to participate, and what are the costs and benefits? If the strategy is completely successful, does it achieve its goal? Analyze strategies with the Equity Tool Does it meet our values? Answer the questions and analyze results Review and revise as necessary Implementation How do we ensure accountability? How do we communicate results? 1 2 3 4 5 6 - - - - - - - - - - - - Review and revise proposed strategies taking an iterative process. Add companion strategies as needed. 5b