期刊
SUSTAINABILITY
卷 13, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13105568
关键词
dietary change; greenhouse gas emissions; climate change; GWP*; New Zealand
资金
- Wellcome Trust, Our Planet Our Health (Livestock, Environment and People-LEAP) [205212/Z/16/Z]
This study uses New Zealand food consumption as a case study to explore the cumulative climate impact of adopting national dietary guidelines and substituting meat from hypothetical diets. The results show that transitioning to a hypothetical dietary guideline diet can reduce diet-related cumulative warming by 7 to 9%, while substituting meat items can further reduce it by 12% to 15%. However, the substitution of meat items results in characteristic nutrient differences that must be considered alongside changes in emission profiles.
Dietary transitions, such as eliminating meat consumption, have been proposed as one way to reduce the climate impact of the global and regional food systems. However, it should be ensured that replacement diets are, indeed, nutritious and that climate benefits are accurately accounted for. This study uses New Zealand food consumption as a case study for exploring the cumulative climate impact of adopting the national dietary guidelines and the substitution of meat from hypothetical diets. The new GWP* metric is used as it was designed to better reflect the climate impacts of the release of methane than the de facto standard 100-year Global Warming Potential metric (GWP100). A transition at age 25 to the hypothetical dietary guideline diet reduces cumulative warming associated with diet by 7 to 9% at the 100th year compared with consuming the average New Zealand diet. The reduction in diet-related cumulative warming from the transition to a hypothetical meat-substituted diet varied between 12% and 15%. This is equivalent to reducing an average individual's lifetime warming contribution by 2 to 4%. General improvements are achieved for nutrient intakes by adopting the dietary guidelines compared with the average New Zealand diet; however, the substitution of meat items results in characteristic nutrient differences, and these differences must be considered alongside changes in emission profiles.
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