29 Mar 2024 --- Using a computer model, researchers determine that a flexitarian diet increases the feasibility of reaching climate goals set in the Paris Agreement, most notably staying within a 1.5°C temperature increase. At the same time, they caution that considerable challenges still need to be addressed in policies supporting healthy diets, social inclusion and compensation schemes. According to the report, if the world shifts to a flexitarian diet such as the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet by 2050, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be reduced. These reductions would increase the compatible carbon budget, allowing the world to achieve the same climate outcome with less carbon dioxide removal and less stringent CO2 emission reductions in energy, reducing pressure on GHG prices, energy prices and food expenses.
