Changing consumer food choices can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The researchers estimate that 56.9 % of the world's population, which currently overconsumes, would save 32.4 % of global food emissions by changing their diet to the Planet Health Diet proposed by the EAT-Lancet Commission.

An international group of researchers are publishing their findings in a journal today Nature Climate Change , notes that a dietary shift to a Planetary Healthy Diet would offset a 15.4 % increase in global dietary emissions from low-consumption populations (43.1 % of the global population) moving toward healthier diets. (University of Birmingham, more at phys.org)