The average meal in general has a carbon impact of approximately 11.4 lbs of carbon dioxide equivalent, abbreviated to CO2e, per person. To meet the UN's sustainability targets for Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement, it’s estimated that a meal should not exceed 1.1 lbs CO2e per meal.
Our "Climatarian" label is applied to meals that emit between 0.2 and 1.1 lbs of CO2e, in alignment with what the WWF and the UN consider to be a climate-friendly meal per person.
We calculate the emissions of our recipes using a life-cycle assessment food database used in the agriculture and food sector. The greenhouse gas emissions from each ingredient have been converted to standard CO2e per lb of product. Carbon emissions are calculated using average CO2e for the individual ingredients that make up a recipe. For example, 1 lb of beef has CO2 emissions ranging between 44-114 lbs of carbon, thus we take an average of 79 lbs. The carbon emissions for each individual ingredient are then carefully calculated based on the quantity per meal. Finally, we sum all the ingredients' emissions to get an overall idea of the emissions for each recipe. We give our customers this information and let them choose the meals that best fit their lifestyle.
* https://www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-03/Food_in_a_warming_world_report.PDF
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