Kanemoto, K., Moran, D., Shigetomi, Y. et al. (2 more authors) (2019) Meat consumption does not explain differences in household food carbon footprints in Japan. One Earth, 1 (4). pp. 464-471. ISSN 2590-3322
Abstract
Many studies, including the EAT-Lancet Commission report, have argued that changing diets—in particular, shifting away from beef in favor of white meat and vegetables—can substantially reduce household carbon footprints (CFs). This argument implies that households with high CFs consume more meat than low-CF households. An observation of diet and CF across 60,000 households in Japan, a nation whose diet and demographics are in many ways globally indicative, does not support this. Meat consumption only weakly explains the difference between high- and low-CF households and is not localized to any particularly easily targeted group. We find that while nearly all households can reduce their CF by eating less meat, higher-CF households are not distinguished by excessive meat consumption relative to other households but rather have higher household CF intensity because of elevated consumption in other areas including restaurants, confectionery, and alcohol.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | food; diet; carbon footprint |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Dec 2019 12:01 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.oneear.2019.12.004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154892 |