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This briefing identifies key decarbonization pathways and obstacles to them, and the role the public and private sectors can play.

To quantify the environmental impact, the Carbon Trust carried out an analysis quantifying the greenhouse gas emissions and embedded water consumption of the avoided waste. This report explains the methodological basis for the conducted analysis and results.

This briefing shines an independent spotlight on the UK government’s current plans for mandatory reporting and what policymakers can do to ensure that the regulations are robust and lead to genuine progress towards a climate-safe world.

Cities play an influential role in achieving a sustainable future, with London’s consumption-based emissions, embedded within the products consumed in the city, being 3.5 times bigger than the territorial emissions, occurring within the city boundaries. When exploring these impacts, it is therefore critical to understand not just the emissions that are directly responsible for producing within the city’s boundaries, but also those associated with things that are consumed – in this case food – that are imported from elsewhere.  

This report explores the mass of materials flowing through London and their associated consumption-based emissions across the entire food and beverage supply chain within Greater London - from imports, primary production, manufacturing, wholesale and retail to consumption in food service and the home, to how waste is managed.  

This paper demonstrates how businesses, financial institutions and policymakers can build a thriving and resilient economy while playing an essential role in reaching climate targets.