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Eating for a sustainable future

As the need to address climate change becomes more urgent, discussions about the impact of our diets and the agricultural industry on the environment have come to the fore. Christian Spielmann explores how economics can be used to understand the relationship between food production and climate change

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It may come as a surprise, but the food we choose to put on our dinner plates has a significant impact on our climate and can even determine how effectively humanity is able to respond to climate change. The reason for this is that agricultural food production, and in particular the farming of livestock, is a main contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.Greenhouse gases block heat from escaping our atmosphere (the greenhouse effect) and contribute to the warming of the Earth’s surface (global warming).

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