Carbon Footprint of Foods

Our World in Data is an excellent website to understand through research and data where to make progress on a personal level against one of the world’s largest problems: The impact of what we eat on climate change.

I suggest you read the following:

Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local.

Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat, to reduce your carbon footprint.

The carbon footprint of foods: are differences explained by the impacts of methane?

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