Sustainable Healthy Diets and Pathway to Net Zero

Tender description

Sustainable Healthy Diets and Pathway to Net Zero: Assessing the Role of Dietary Transitions in UK Food System Decarbonisation A desk-based multidisciplinary research study to fill an evidence gap for the food science and food systems sustainability programme. Specifically, the requirement will seek to quantify how a transition to a more sustainable and healthy diets, driven by current consumption trends and potentially enhanced by future demand side policies may influence UK territorial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the food system in the run-up to Net Zero 2050. The project is consists of 6 research questions for successful tenderer to address and will develop a modelling framework that represents foreseeable changes in the UK public’s diet in response to the implementation of demand-side policies. Defra is seeking expertise in greenhouse gas accounting, earth science and life cycle assessment sectors as well as technical knowledge of complex modelling systems and development of economic and physical modelling and experience of synthesising literature. The required expertise is multi-disciplinary; therefore, Defra welcomes consortia applications and collaborations with academia, research institutions, non-governmental organisations, sectoral bodies, and industry partners. The principal client using the results will be policy officials in Defra’s agrifood chain directorate.