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The impacts of healthy diets on future greenhouse gas emissions in China

Photo of fruit and veg market. Credit Minan via Pexels.

This report by the Food and Land Use Coalition highlights that 51% of China’s agricultural emissions could be mitigated with the widespread adoption of healthy and sustainable diets and 11 million deaths per year could be prevented globally if the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet was fully adopted. 

Publisher’s Summary

This report highlights the significant mitigation potential of sustainable and healthy diets in China, and examines the extent to which changes in food consumption can have a positive impact on the environment, climate and human health. Across four models, it assesses the uncertainty ranges of future greenhouse gas emissions from the Chinese agricultural sector, and the potential impacts associated with the widespread adoption of healthy and sustainable diets. It offers several recommendations for implementation and for closing critical knowledge gaps to improve future assessments.

Reference

Read more here. See also the TABLE explainer on agricultural methane emissions. 

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