✅ La viande et les produits laitiers représentent 65% de l'impact CO2 de la nourriture des Européens

“Your food choices don’t matter, Europe’s emissions are much smaller than China”. I see this a lot in the comments. And it’s not true: EU consumption causes about 9% of global greenhouse gases but only represents 4.5% of the world population. In other words, we’re taking far more than our fair share of resources. And the biggest share of these consumption emissions comes from food: 🍔 Food: 38% 🏠 Housing: 25% 🚘 Mobility: 21% 👖 Household goods: 13% ⚡️ Appliances: 3% (in the video I combined the last two into one category of ‘stuff’) Companies and governments need to do a better job with climate change, but we cannot solve the problem without also changing our behaviour. This is why we started Fork Ranger: because one of the main solutions - less meat, more plants - makes a huge difference and is something everyone can contribute to. It’s also a win-win: it’s both healthier and cheaper than a diet high in meat. I should add that this represents average numbers across the EU. And while the overall share of each category is pretty similar in each country, there could be big differences per person. For example, transport is lower than food because the average person still doesn’t take a lot of flights. But if you take one long-distance flight, transport would easily be the biggest category. If you like this video, check out our free app (Fork Ranger): you answer a daily quiz question to unlock recipes. The app has a lot more infographics that are wort knowing but don’t fit into social media videos 🙂 --- Source: Axelsson, K., Gong, J., Marcinkevičiūtė, S., Dugast, C., Lambe, F., Maquet, P., Carson, M. & Suljada, T. (2024). Consumption-based emissions: new opportunities for EU climate mitigation. SEI Brief, June 2024. Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm.