Pick a dish
- Margherita Pizza
- Wheat
- Cheese
- Olive Oil
- Veggies
- Tomatoes
- Sushi
- Rice
- Fish
- Soybean Oil
- Noodle
- Wheat
- Eggs
- Rapeseed Oil
- Poutine
- Potatoes
- Beef
- Rapeseed Oil
- Cheese
- Tacos
- Corn
- Beef
- Cheese
- Onion
- Tomatoes
- Fish 'n Chips
- Fish
- Potatoes
- Wheat
- Eggs
- Milk
- Sunflower Oil
- Chicken Curry
- Chicken
- Olive Oil
- Onion
- Tomatoes
- Rice
- Apple Pie
- Wheat
- Sugar
- Apple
- Eggs
- BBQ
- Beef
- Olive Oil
- Onion
- Cheese Burger
- Wheat
- Cheese
- Beef
- Palm Oil
- Onion
- Salad
- Cabbage
- Veggies
- Carrot
- Tomato
- Olive Oil
- Cheese
- Paella
- Rice
- Chicken
- Shrimp
- Onion
- Tomato
- Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Chocolate
- Wheat
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Nuts
Climate Change Through Food
by: Adam Michaud, Maxime Fuchs, Morteza Asgari
Developed for INF8808E at Polytechnique Montréal
for Prof. Thomas Hurtut
With guidance from Voilà: revealing information design
July 2020
Take a moment please...
Have you ever asked yourself, “What is my role in climate change?” Maybe there is something that you can do differently! The intention of this project is to raise awareness about the climate emergency the world is experiencing and how some minor changes can be beneficial for all of us, some things that are part of everyone’s life
Regarding saving this precious planet for us and the generations to come, we should be more aware how our food has an impact on it.
Let's see how your food choices can affect
climate change!
What are you planning for your dinner?
For each food below, the amount of CO2 emissions per kilogram produced of this type of food is represented in the chart.
= 300 g
Why should I care about CO2 emission?
CO2 Emission & GHG
are the main causes for Global warming
What is the role of the food industry
in the global CO2 emissions?
27% of global CO2 emissions come from the food industry. It is the single largest contributing factor to CO2 emissions. The other 73% is composed of transportation, industries, electricity, heating and many more.
In the food sector, 53% is due to meat. The emissions come from livestocks, deforestation to make space for grazing and crops to feed the animals. Beef is the type of meat that pollutes the most and it is shown that reducing our meat consumption would benefit the climate.
What would it be like if the entire world
was eating likeYour Country ?
The food industry is a major actor in world's CO2 emissions and thus
also
responsible for global warming.
The next question we want then to answer is who and why.
To answer that we want to focus on people's diet. We collected data on
each
country
habits of consumming. This shows, on average, how the country's
habitants
eat.
We saw that each product doesn't emits the same amount of CO2,
so depending on how they eat, the country will have its CO2 emissions
impacted.
In order to have a first impression on a chosen country habit of consumption, we show how much ressource of the Earth global population would need if every one on the planet was consuming as an average person of that country.
- References
- Where do the emissions from our food come from?, Data, Our World in Data.
- Global Tempreture, data.world.
- Emission intensities, (All countries, CO2eq, all items, 1961-2017), FAOSTAT, UN Food and Agriculture Organization
- Where do greenhouse gas emissions come from?, University of California. (Food emissions included: Food waste, agriculture and land use)
- Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, Our World in Data.
- (Meat emissions included: livestock and fish farms, crops for animal feed, land use for livestock (retailing, packaging, transportation and food processing not included)).
- Land requirements by national diets, Our World in Data.
- New Food Balances, New Food Balances