Health improvement and nutritional change could be an innovative route to emissions reduction. It makes sense to combine these previously divorced aims by measuring the carbon impacts of diet.
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Jeffries, E. Changing course. Nature Clim Change 5, 405–407 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2630
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