INHERIT Policy Route Map: 20 Policy Interventions to a Healthier, More Sustainable and Equitable Europe in 2040 @inheritEU#InheritYourFuture If you leave your front door and walk for five minutes – can you reach a park? Or a forest? If it was up to the INHERIT project team, there would be a policy intervention that guarantees every citizen at least 0.5-1 hectare of greenspace within 300 meters of their home. Sound great? That’s because accessible and well-planned green space contributes to the health and well-being of everyone. This policy intervention is only one of many that the INHERIT project identifies in their newly published Policy Route Map. From blockchain technology for decentralised energy trading to the transformation of parking lots into green space, the INHERIT project has identified 20 innovative policy interventions that can influence lifestyles and lead to behaviour change—enabling healthier, more sustainable and equitable societies. INHERIT’s new Route Map draws from a multi-stakeholder process with experts from all over Europe. The Policy Route Map report contains interventions that reflect the need for holistic and systemic planning, vision and change. These interventions have the potential to contribute towards the project’s ‘triple win’ principle: improving health, reducing negative impacts on the environment, and diminishing social and health inequities. Policies were filtered based on their degree of innovativeness and their potential to be implemented at a local, national and European level. The policy suggestions are a mix of top-down and bottom-up approaches with hard and soft measures, ranging from legislative, environmental and social planning to service provision or communication and marketing. The policies cover leverages and opportunities in four lifestyle areas: green space, energy efficient housing, (active) mobility and (food) consumption, and one general area. Improvement to accessibility, availability and usability of green spaces and their related benefits is the focus of ‘green space’. ‘Energy efficient housing’ policies tap into opportunities for making households’ energy consumption more sustainable and efficient. Policies for the (active) ‘mobility’ look into diversifying current modes of transport and reducing our dependence on motorised transport. Lastly, ‘consumption’ addresses sustainable and healthy diets and the improvement of related food production processes. The Policy Route Map and our project work are multi-stakeholder oriented. The successful implementation of these policies requires and depends on the engagement of actors from several sectors operating throughout Europe including policy makers, businesses, CSOs and other organisations as well as citizens themselves. Finally in the publication, we link the proposed interventions to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the basis of their expected contribution towards the SDGs’ advancement. Photo by Alex Blăjan on Unsplash