Why carbon accounting for food products needs an overhaul

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Food companies have started putting emissions labels on specific products. But do those labels have any truth behind them? Image via Shutterstock/Jeppe Gustafsson.
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Food companies have started putting emissions labels on specific products. But do those labels have any truth behind them? Image via Shutterstock/Jeppe Gustafsson.

The World Wildlife Fund asserts that product-level emissions data for food products is meaningless without stronger standards and more detailed input factors

Food companies' product-level greenhouse gas accounting efforts are most likely irrelevant, states a recent World Wildlife Fund (WWF) analysis. It found that emissions attributed to a specific product...

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