Food

Making sustainable choices around the food we eat, where it comes from and how it’s produced can be a powerful way to reduce our carbon footprint.

Food loss and waste generates around the same emissions as road transport globally. It’s more than four times the annual greenhouse gas emissions from aviation.

Auckland’s food system makes up 18 per cent of our consumption emissions. Consumption emissions come from food production, transport, processing and disposal to landfill.

Climate change will affect food production with longer periods of drought, more intense storms and flooding, and an increasing number of pests and diseases.

TE Ū O TĀ MĀTOU WHAI
OUR COMMITMENT

We need to restore, rejuvenate and replenish mahinga kai – our soils and systems that support food.

We seek to build a resilient, local, regenerative food system by:

• Supporting food producers and manufacturers to reduce their carbon footprint and respond to climate risks.

• Protecting our productive soils through land use planning and regenerative practices for soil health.

• Supporting partnerships with communities, food growers and retailers to ensure that all Aucklanders have easy access to nutritious, affordable food with a low carbon footprint.

• Ensuring that food systems thinking is embedded in decision making and policy development.

• Reducing waste and using leftover food scraps to produce compost, fertiliser and energy.

Find out more about the food priority