It explores the science of how eating animal products drives emissions…
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Emissions from beef production vary across different farms and countries. This chart shows the spread of emissions produced in the making of various foods.
While meat causes the highest emissions, the production of some foods, including certain nuts, can help to reduce CO2.
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The way people eat also varies from region to region.
The video below shows how regional intake of different foods compares to what is considered “healthy and sustainable” by scientists from @EATforum.
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What diet would be best for the planet? Analysis from @IPCC_CH suggests that a global switch to veganism would provide the largest emissions savings.
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Plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy can produce fewer emissions.
Our analysis shows the carbon footprints of the Beyond Meat burger and the Impossible burger are around 20 times smaller than that of the average beef burger.
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On Thursday at 2pm BST, we will also be holding a webinar where experts will answer the question: “Do we need to stop eating meat and dairy to tackle climate change?”
NEW: Carbon Brief has scoured media and civil-society reports from the past five years to paint, for the first time, a global picture of the impacts of #CarbonOffsets
More than 50 cases of carbon-offset projects causing harm have been mapped
The story of how carbon offsets went from an idea to make companies consider their pollution through to a major feature of country and business climate targets stretches back 60 years
Here’s an interactive timeline detailing every step of this journey
@nytimes reports that regulators in California will vote today “to put in place a sweeping plan to restrict and ultimately ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars”. nytimes.com/2022/08/24/cli…
In this issue...
🌎 - Drought emergencies across the globe
🚜 - KUS takes on farming emissions in climate bill
🔥 - Pantanal peat fires getrevue.co/profile/Carbon…
Europe is currently experiencing what is likely the worst drought in 500 years, with two-thirds of it under some kind of drought warning, @BBCNews reports. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…