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Changing course

Health improvement and nutritional change could be an innovative route to emissions reduction. It makes sense to combine these previously divorced aims by measuring the carbon impacts of diet.

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Jeffries, E. Changing course. Nature Clim Change 5, 405–407 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2630

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