Study: Healthier diet ‘strongest l • Table.Briefings

Eine flexitarische Ernährung nach der Planetary Health Diet könnte das 1,5 Grad Ziel noch ermöglichen. — The EAT-Lancet Commission’s Planetary Health Diet recommends eating more pulses, nuts, vegetables, and fruit and less red meat and sugar.

A healthier diet could be a „decisive lever“ for achieving the 1.5 degree target. This would reduce dependence on CO2 removal technologies and cut costs, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

If the global consumption of red meat and sugar were halved while the consumption of healthy products such as fruit, vegetables, pulses, and nuts doubled, this could help to keep the 1.5-degree target within reach. Food and energy prices would be comparatively cheaper and dependence on carbon capture technologies would decrease. This is the conclusion of researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in a new study published on Wednesday in Science Advances.

Study: Healthier diet ‘strongest lever’ for 1.5-degree target

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