Diet and climate change
Diet and climate change
Enjoy your meal! The climate is at the table. During this workshop, participants deal with issues around diet. Specifically, they compare different foods and the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions they incur. Participants learn that the production of different kinds of foods releases varying levels of GHGs into the atmosphere. They’re asked to match up the foods to the respective emissions they incur, and are invited to discuss, guess and explore the emission levels the products cause and why. As a by-product, they learn how they can adopt a climate-friendly diet.
2 Diet and climate change
Time required 20 to 30 minutes
Method
Interactive game
• Foam (or cardboard or similar) cubes with the following side lengths 1 : – Fresh vegetables: 0.53 cm – Fresh fruit: 1.05 cm – Wheat and rye: 1.57 cm – Milk: 3.15 cm – Eggs: 4.67 cm – Beef: 99.48 cm • Suitable symbols for: fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, bread or wheat/rye, eggs, milk and beef
Materials
• Production of the cubes using, e.g., cardboard • Procurement of suitable replica food items or printouts of images. Using real food items is also possible, provided they do not go to waste (e.g., they can be cooked afterwards)
Preparation
1 The distances are based on Poore, J., & Nemecek, T. (2018). Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consum - ers. Science, 360(6392), 987-992. Online https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987 [last accessed on 12 December 2022]; see also https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/food-footprints [last accessed on 12 December 2022
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