Eat4Climate: the European cities changing citizen diet to cut carbon emissions (Network artice #1)
“In Mouans-Sartoux, people are surrounded by sustainable food”
In the French Riviera town of Mouans-Sartoux, schoolchildren eat organic vegetables harvested a few kilometres away, disadvantaged families pick up subsidised produce from a municipal grocery, and cooking workshops are as common as sports clubs. Sustainable food is not hidden in specialist stores or reserved for environmental enthusiasts. It is woven into everyday life.
“For people here, sustainable food is everywhere,” says Gilles Pérole, deputy mayor for food policy. “People are surrounded by it.”
That deceptively simple idea has become the foundation of Eat4Climate, a new URBACT Transfer Network bringing together six European territories determined to cut their climate impact by changing how people eat.
