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

北美每年的粮食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（ghg）的排放。事实上，加拿大的食品供应链可能占总排放量的40%。目前还没有解决这些温室气体根源的全面战略，大多数粮食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在科学文献、省级政府或行业利益相关者的咨询报告以及基层非政府组织之间是支离破碎的。因此，缺乏具有凝聚力的信息，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减少或转移有机物质的挑战。该项目旨在汇集零散的报告和信息，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粮食系统温室气体排放。从这个项目中吸取的经验将用于在社区一级制定气候行动战略。这将通过直接测量、以社区为基础的试点项目以及与不同利益相关者合作进行建模分析来实现。这是具有解决粮食系统的科学和人的层面的经验的专家的合作。目标是开发可公开使用的工具来评估温室气体排放，与有关各方分享气候行动战略，并培训在这些领域工作的新专业人员。该项目将产生有意义的行动和政策，从而显著和可持续地减少加拿大食品供应链中的人为温室气体。

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.