CBC NEWS: Your meals are speeding up climate change, but there's a way to eat sustainably

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    Many everyday foods generate a surprising quantity of greenhouse gas emissions. For example, a breakfast sandwich with bacon, sausage and egg that you picked up on the way to work would have generated the equivalent of about 1,441 grams of carbon dioxide, reports a recent study by University of Manchester researchers Namy Espinoza-Orias and Adisa Azapagic. That's about the same as a Honda Civic sedan driving nine kilometres.

    Period4 Dec 2018

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    • TitleYour meals are speeding up climate change, but there's a way to eat sustainably
      Media name/outletCBC
      Media typeWeb
      Country/TerritoryCanada
      Date4/12/18
      DescriptionMany everyday foods generate a surprising quantity of greenhouse gas emissions. For example, a breakfast sandwich with bacon, sausage and egg that you picked up on the way to work would have generated the equivalent of about 1,441 grams of carbon dioxide, reports a recent study by University of Manchester researchers Namy Espinoza-Orias and Adisa Azapagic. That's about the same as a Honda Civic sedan driving nine kilometres.
      URLhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/food-climate-change-carbon-footprint-1.4930062
      PersonsNamy Espinoza-Orias, Adisa Azapagic

    Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

    • Energy

    Keywords

    • climate change
    • food sustainability
    • carbon emissions