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Dietary Change in High-Income Nations Alone can Lead to Substantial Double Climate Dividend

Nature Food

Volume: 3: 29-37

10 JAN 2022

Sun, Z., Scherer, L., Tukker, A., Spawn-Lee, S. A., Bruckner, M., Gibbs, H. K., et. al.

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From the source: "The contribution of Z.S. was funded by the China Scholarship Council (201706040080). The contribution of M.B. was funded by the European Research Council (grant agreement number 725525) and the Austrian Science Fund (project number P 31598_G31). The contribution of S.A.S.-L. to this work was supported by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant no. DGE-1747503."

From the source: "The authors declare no competing interests."
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The authors examine a “double climate dividend” to underscore the importance of the inherent relationship between the land, climate, food and public health. Specifically, they use the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet to show how shifting to plant-based foods from animal-based foods can simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions via 1) the production channel, and 2) sequestering carbon if the spared land can return to its natural state. Focusing on 54 high-income nations, the results show that this shift could reduce agricultural production GHG emissions related to diet by 61% while also sequestering up to 98.3 GtCO2 equivalent.

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