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- Florén, Britta, et al.
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Climate database facilitating climate smart meal planning for the public sector in Sweden
- 2017
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In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics. - 1869-6945. ; 8:1, s. 72-80
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Food consumption corresponds to around 25 % of the total consumption-driven climate change impact in Sweden. Dietary change has a considerable potential to reduce this negative impact. To motivate dietary changes adequate information about food climate impact has to be communicated at the decision making point. This study aims at facilitating availability and communication of such information specifically for meal planners at the public sector. Thereby a database is developed and incorporated into the Diet and Nutrition planning software systems used in planning meals in public kitchens. The results provide the meal planners with the opportunity to design climate-conscious and healthy meals by choosing resource-efficient and nutritious ingredients. This provides the potential of reducing the climate impact of an average meal by about 20%. Given the total amount of ca. 3 million public meals served each day in Sweden, use of this integrated tool has the potential to reduce the climate impact by more than 700 tonnes of CO2-eq per day
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- Florén, Britta, et al.
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Climate Database Facilitating Climate Smart Meal Planning for the Public Sector in Sweden
- 2016
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In: Proceedings in System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2016. ; , s. 122-128
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The climate impact of food consumption corresponds to about 2 tons of CO2eq. per capita, representing around 25 % of the total consumption-driven climate change impact in Sweden. There are several diverse ongoing trends of food consumption in Sweden, and their primary drivers are environmental and health considerations. The results of a market research carried out by YouGov (2010) indicated that nearly 75 percent of respondents would buy climate-labeled food, and nearly 50 percent of the respondents would be willing to pay a higher price for such a product.The climate impact from meals could be significantly decreased through small changes in recipes by reducing the amount of ingredients with high carbon footprints or substituting them with other ingredients with the same function but lower carbon footprints. By making more climate-conscious choices, e.g. eating more vegetables as well as poultry, egg and seafood instead of red meat, the climate impact per person and year could be reduced by half.Several recent studies suggest that dietary changes can reduce food-related environmental impacts significantly (e.g. Tilman and Clark, 2014; Hallström et al., 2015; Stehfest, 2014; Röös et al., 2015; Bryngelsson et al., 2016). These studies have mainly explored theoretical dietary scenarios, and not what people actually eat; for example, in one study a model-based theoretical diet, which reduced GHGs by 90%, included unrealistic amounts of only seven food items (Macdiarmid, 2012). Still, this information is important when aiming to guide food producers, public authorities and consumers towards more sustainable and healthy options. The national food agency Sweden updated their dietary advice in 2015, which now also takes environmental consideration into account, besides health impact (SLV, 2015).To combat climate change, recommendations need to be realized and incorporated into applications in daily practices. There has been an optimistic belief that the availability of information could boost environmentally sound behavior among the general public, but there is a rather weak link between knowing and doing. Feedback directly tied to people's own behavior has been shown to be more effective than general information (Lundgren, 2000), for example by making the information available directly in the decision making moment e.g. when shopping food or planning a meal. If such information is timely communicated, it can have considerable contribution to more sustainable consumption. In a field experiment conducted by Matsdotter et al. (2014) in 17 food stores in Sweden, the results show that climate labeling increased demand for climate-labeled milk by 7%. In another recent research project (Kamb et al, 2015), households in Uppsala were able to reduce their climate footprint by 31% by having access to climate friendly information and inspiration, e.g. the participants could get direct feedback on GHGs for certain products and services via a mobile application. This project was conducted at a very small scale, but still proves the potential of influencing behavioral change by using interactive applications at the point of decision making.
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- Florén, Britta, et al.
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Förstudie: Smart och klimatmedveten matbutik för morgondagens konsumenter och samhälle
- 2019
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Vid sidan om transporter och bostäder så står maten för en av de stora klimatutmaningarna nu och framöver. Matens del av den totala konsumtionsdrivna klimatpåverkan i Sverige är idag cirka 25 %, ca 2 ton CO2-e per person och år. Genom att underlätta för konsumenter att välja mer klimatsmarta val vid livsmedelsinköp finns en möjlighet att minska klimatpåverkan från livsmedel. I ett nudgingförsök på mat.se sänkte medverkande kunder sin klimatpåverkan från livsmedel med 7 procent baserat på genomsnittliga kg CO2-e per order. Under motsvarande period minskade icke-deltagande konsumenter sitt klimatavtryck med 3 procent med samma beräkningsmetod. Förstudien har undersökt hur information om klimatpåverkan hos olika livsmedel tillsammans med tillgängliggörandet av klimatsmartare alternativ (nudging) kan förändra köpbeteendet hos konsumenten. Målet har varit att minska klimatpåverkan i staden. Förstudien har fokuserat på metoder och parametrar viktiga för att locka fler att medvetet eller omedvetet handla mer miljö-/klimat-smartare mat. Livskraftiga städer som uppmuntrar till hållbara livsstilar kräver innovativa lösningar som underlättar för konsumenten att välja rätt. Projektupplägget har bestått av en kartläggning av nuvarande situation, nudgingförsök samt projektworkshops. Kartläggningen genomfördes för att avgöra vilka produkter som är av specifikt intresse att tillgängliggöra klimatsmartare alternativ. RISE klimatdatabas för livsmedel har varit central i denna del för att identifiera vilka beslutsval som har kapacitet att ge en betydande klimatnytta. Nudgingförsöket har byggts upp i en två-stegs nudgingmodell där konsumenterna först har aktivt fått välja att medverka i projektet (steg 1). För de som väljer att förbinda sig till detta har klimatsmartare alternativ lyfts upp till det först visade alternativet vid vissa specifika sökord (steg 2). Projektdeltagare: - Mat.se, en innovativ aktör inom e-handel som vill utveckla lösningar för en minskad klimatpåverkan från livsmedelskonsumtion.- Göteborg Stad deltog som representant för medborgaren och staden, - Handelshögskolan (GU) med forskningsexpertis inom nudging. - RISE, experter inom livsmedels klimatpåverkan och beteendevetenskap.
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- Hudson, Lawrence N, et al.
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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
- 2017
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In: Ecology and Evolution. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2045-7758. ; 7:1, s. 145-188
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.
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