Development and implementation of tools and strategies to address greenhouse gas emissions in Canada's food system: Decarbonizing Canada's Food Supply Chain

开发和实施解决加拿大食品系统温室气体排放问题的工具和战略：加拿大食品供应链脱碳

• 批准号: 577384-2022
• 负责人: Price, GordonW
• 金额: $ 36.43万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=743390
• 关键词: Development; implementation; tools; strategies; address

Food loss and waste (FLW) in North America totals over 168 million tonnes annually creating significant direct and indirect social, economic, and environmental disruptions, including the emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs). In fact, Canada's food supply chain may contribute as much as 40% of total emissions. Comprehensive strategies to address the root causes of these GHGs do not exist and accurate data are sorely lacking across most food sectors. GHG gas data across the food system is fragmented across scientific literature, consultation reports by provincial governments or industry stakeholders, and with non-governmental organizations at the grassroots level. As a result, there is a significant lack of cohesive information, particularly from the industrial, commercial, and institutional (IC&I) sector, who face challenges accessing resources to minimize or divert organics. This project aims to bring together fragmented reporting and information to build an open access database system and to quantify food system GHG emissions, from farm to fork, in Canada. The learned experiences from this project will be used to develop climate action strategies at a community level. This will be achieved through direct measurements, community-based pilot projects, and modeling analysis in partnership with diverse stakeholders. This is a collaboration of experts with the experience to address the scientific and human dimensions of the food system. The goal is to develop publicly available tools to assess GHG emissions, share climate action strategies with interested parties, and train new professionals to work in these fields. The project will generate meaningful actions and policies that will result in significant and sustainable reductions in anthropogenic GHGs across Canada's food supply chain.

北美每年的食物损失和浪费总量超过1.68亿吨，造成重大的直接和间接的社会、经济和环境破坏，包括人为温室气体的排放。事实上，加拿大的食品供应链可能贡献了高达40%的总排放量。目前尚不存在解决这些温室气体根源的综合战略，大多数食品部门也严重缺乏准确的数据。整个食品系统的温室气体数据分散在科学文献、省级政府或行业利益攸关方的咨询报告以及基层非政府组织的咨询报告中。因此，缺乏有凝聚力的信息，特别是来自工业、商业和机构(IC&I)部门的信息，他们面临着获取资源以最大限度地减少或转移有机物的挑战。该项目旨在将零散的报告和信息结合在一起，以建立一个开放获取的数据库系统，并量化加拿大从农场到餐桌的食品系统温室气体排放。从该项目中学到的经验将用于制定社区一级的气候行动战略。这将通过直接测量、以社区为基础的试点项目和与不同利益攸关方合作进行建模分析来实现。这是有经验的专家合作，解决食品系统的科学和人文方面的问题。其目标是开发公开可用的工具来评估温室气体排放，与感兴趣的各方分享气候行动战略，并培训新的专业人员在这些领域工作。该项目将产生有意义的行动和政策，使加拿大整个粮食供应链的人为温室气体显著和可持续地减少。