Treibhausgasemissionen, Biodiversität und Wassernutzung Die drei „must have“-Kriterien der ökologischen Bewertung von Lebensmitteln und Ernährungsmustern Ergebnisse eines Fachdialogs des Umweltbundesamtes 2023/24

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Germany's Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt) addressed the challenge that current environmental assessments of food often focus too narrowly on carbon footprint, potentially overlooking other crucial environmental impacts. Their approach involved conducting an expert dialogue with 33 scientists between May 2023 and October 2024 to identify a consensus on essential ecological criteria for food and nutrition patterns. The dialogue concluded with the recommendation that greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, and water use should be considered as the three "must-have" criteria, while also highlighting the need for further methodological development, especially for biodiversity footprint assessment and data harmonization.

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