Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories
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Life cycle assessments have demonstrated a particularly high climate impact of beef and other ruminant meat compared with meat from monogastric animals.
“Life cycle assessments (LCAs) have demonstrated a particularly high climate impact of beef and other types of ruminant meat in comparison with meat from monogastric animals (Clune et al., 2017;Gerber et al., 2013).”
From Time-dependent climate impact of beef production – can carbon sequestration in soil offset enteric methane emissions? (2022) · cites this paper as Clune et al., 2017
Clune et al. (41) provide GWP estimates for over 150 food categories, converted to a common benchmark of 'farm to regional distribution center'.
“An LCA meta-analysis study conducted by Clune et al. (41) contains GWP estimations for over 150 food categories. This paper outlines estimations of the kg of CO2 produced per kg of edible food product. The authors convert the various boundaries of the LCA studies to a common benchmark of “farm to regional distribution center” (41).”
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- Authors
- Clune, S., Crossin, E., & Verghese, K.
- Affiliations
- Lancaster University (GB)
- RMIT University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Clune, Stephen
- Venue
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-01
- Volume
- 140
- Pages
- 766-783
- ISSN
- 0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2345651691
- Cited by
- 1,017
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 82 · 2025: 117 · 2024: 145 · 2023: 143 · 2022: 139 · 2021: 137 · 2020: 96 · 2019: 85 · 2018: 54 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 5.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- eprints.lancs.ac.uk
- Licence
- public-domain
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Cleaner Production (publishedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (acceptedVersion, public-domain)
- RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Keywords
- greenhouse gas emissions, food emissions, global warming potential, fresh produce, food choice, life cycle assessment, ruminant livestock, non-ruminant livestock, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, meat consumption
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