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What is the Plant Based Treaty?
We are urging individuals, groups, businesses and cities to endorse this call to action and put pressure on national governments to negotiate an international Plant Based Treaty as a companion to the UNFCCC Paris Agreement.
The treaty would put food systems at the heart of combating the climate crisis, aiming to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture, to promote a shift to more healthy, sustainable plant-based diets and to actively reverse damage done to planetary functions, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
The Plant Based Treaty has three core principles:
Redirect
An active transition away from animal-based food systems to plant-based systems
Relinquish
No land use change, ecosystem degradation or deforestation for animal agriculture
Restore
Actively restoring key ecosystems, particularly restoring forests and rewilding landscapes
Plant Based Treaty in Action Report
How Plant Based Treaty’s 40 suggested proposals are being implemented worldwide.
PLANT BASED TREATY UPDATES
Latest City Endorsements
Somerville, United States
ENDORSED April 9, 2026
Somerville agrees to promote Plant-Based Restaurant Week, provide plant-based educational material and encourage plant-based food at city events
Somerville City Council unanimously passed a resolution to endorse the Plant Based Treaty and implement meaningful plant-based initiatives. This Earth Month endorsement makes Somerville the 70th city globally and 7th US city to support the initiative, after Cambridge endorsed in January 2026, following US cities Culver City CA, West Hollywood CA, Hoboken NJ, Los Angeles CA, and Boynton Beach FL.
Getafe, Spain
ENDORSED MARCH 25, 2026
The city will develop a Local Action Plan to reduce food emissions and promote sustainable diet
Getafe has become the fifth Spanish municipality to support a shift towards plant-based food systems. It joins 68 cities, including Mataró, Parla, El Masnou, and Alcorcón in Spain, as well as major European capitals: Amsterdam, Edinburgh, and Belfast.
Almere, The Netherlands
ENDORSED MARCH 10, 2026
Almere becomes sixth Dutch city to sign Plant Based Treaty, targeting 60% plant-based diet by 2030Â
Almere has signed the Plant Based Treaty, committing to raise the share of plant-based proteins in the city’s diet to 60% by 2030. The city joins Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Groningen, Arnhem and Haarlem, making it the sixth Dutch municipality to endorse the international call to shift to a plant based food system.
Why do we need a Plant Based Treaty?
Fossil fuels and animal agriculture are the driving force behind runaway global warming as well as extensive biodiversity loss, large-scale deforestation, species extinction, water depletion, soil degradation and ocean dead zones.  Addressing fossil fuels alone isn’t enough – we need action on food systems too; that’s where the Plant Based Treaty comes in. The three main greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are at devastatingly high levels and rapidly accelerating.
Animal agriculture is driving Indigenous land theft in the Amazon; subjecting racially and ethnically marginalized communities to disproportionate amounts of toxic waste from factory farms and slaughterhouses as well as exposing workers to toxic chemicals, hazardous working conditions and severe trauma.
Latest News
Somerville joins Cambridge as second city in Massachusetts to call for a global Plant Based Treaty, one of 70 cities worldwide
Media Contacts:
Anita Krajnc: [email protected]
Getafe becomes the fifth city in Spain to endorse the Plant Based Treaty
Media Contacts:
Anita Krajnc: [email protected]
Almere becomes sixth Dutch city to sign Plant Based Treaty, targeting 60% plant-based diet by 2030
Media Contacts:
Lea Goodett: [email protected]
Meal Replacement at Bhutan’s public school system
By Miriam Porter
Cambridge becomes first city in Massachusetts to call for a global Plant Based Treaty, joining 65 cities worldwide
Media Contacts:
Lea Goodett: [email protected]
City of Vincent becomes the first council in Western Australia to support the Plant Based Treaty
Media Contacts:
Lea Goodett: [email protected]
Latest News
Somerville joins Cambridge as second city in Massachusetts to call for a global Plant Based Treaty, one of 70 cities worldwide
Media Contacts:
Anita Krajnc: [email protected]
Getafe becomes the fifth city in Spain to endorse the Plant Based Treaty
Media Contacts:
Anita Krajnc: [email protected]
Almere becomes sixth Dutch city to sign Plant Based Treaty, targeting 60% plant-based diet by 2030
Media Contacts:
Lea Goodett: [email protected]
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