It is important to integrate the principles of sustainable development into all aspects of catering and to uphold these principles in their relationships with all partners and customers.
The topics covered and the solutions recommended are based on the recommendations of the Federal Environment Agency for sustainable collective catering (2020).
Effective governance ensures that energy management strategies are well designed, properly implemented, and continuously improved. Governance provides a structured approach to strategic planning in energy management. This involves setting clear objectives, defining roles and responsibilities, and outlining the steps needed to achieve CO₂ emission reduction targets.
In order to establish a long-term approach to sustainability, objectives must be formalised at the institutional level and made public. This helps to formalise the approach among employees, consumers and suppliers, and to ensure its continuity regardless of personnel changes. These efforts should also serve to raise awareness among all stakeholders.
We want to raise awareness among all our members about the challenges of sustainable food and give them the opportunity to take action. This starts with providing relevant information and implementing awareness-raising initiatives.
One useful tool is the Beelong calculator, an online tool that helps chefs create recipes and assess their environmental impact, as well as reporting tools and access to an extensive product database.
The EPFL community currently numbers around 16,000 people, and the food they consume on campus accounts for around 13% of total carbon emissions (>6,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2019). Half of these emissions come from meat products, even though these products account for less than 15% of total food purchases. In 2019, EPFL rolled out an ambitious sustainable catering strategy that aims to radically change food consumption on campus, with an emphasis on meals made from fresh, local and seasonal produce and dishes that are tasty, nutritionally balanced, affordable (especially for students) and have the lowest possible environmental impact.
Achievements in 2022
Cet outil propose des actions correspondant aux objectifs du secteur de l’alimentation de la Charte 2050Today comme référence pour la définition d’un plan d’action
Based on an initial assessment, each institution is invited to adopt its own actions and develop and implement its action plan in order to achieve its own objectives within 1, 3 and 5 years.
The proposed objectives and actions are non-exhaustive examples and are listed according to the priority of the impact indicator and the suggested objectives:
Level 1: Highest priority
Level 2: Very important
Level 3: Recommended
Obtain the Excel table listing food-related objectives and actions, ranked according to priority of impact.
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