Environmental assessment of diets: overview and guidance on indicator choice
Reviewartikel, 2024
Comprehensive but interpretable assessment of the environmental performance of diets involves choosing a set of appropriate indicators. Current knowledge and data gaps on the origin of dietary foodstuffs restrict use of indicators relying on site-specific information. This Personal View summarises commonly used indicators for assessing the environmental performance of diets, briefly outlines their benefits and drawbacks, and provides recommendations on indicator choices for actors across multiple fields involved in activities that include the environmental assessment of diets. We then provide recommendations on indicator choices for actors across multiple fields involved in activities that use environmental assessments, such as health and nutrition experts, policy makers, decision makers, and private-sector and public-sector sustainability officers. We recommend that environmental assessment of diets should include indicators for at least the five following areas: climate change, biosphere integrity, blue water consumption, novel entities, and impacts on natural resources (especially wild fish stocks), to capture important environmental trade-offs. If more indicators can be handled in the assessment, indicators to capture impacts related to land use quantity and quality and green water consumption should be used. For ambitious assessments, indicators related to biogeochemical flows, stratospheric ozone depletion, and energy use can be added.
Författare
Ylva Ran
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
Christel Cederberg
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Fysisk resursteori
Malin Jonell
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Kungliga vetenskapsakademien
Kristina Bergman
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)
I. de Boer
Wageningen University and Research
Rasmus Einarsson
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
Johan O. Karlsson
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
Hanna Karlsson Potter
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
Michael Martin
IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet
Geneviève S. Metson
Western University
Linköpings universitet
Thomas Nemecek
Forschungsanstalt Agroscope Reckenholz-Tanikon
Kimberly A. Nicholas
Lunds universitet
Åsa Strand
IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet
Pernilla Tidåker
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
H. M. G. van der Werf
Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE)
Davy Vanham
Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA
Hannah H.E. Van Zanten
Wageningen University and Research
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
F Verones
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Elin Röös
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
The Lancet Planetary Health
25425196 (eISSN)
Vol. 8 3 e172-e187Ämneskategorier
Annan naturresursteknik
Miljövetenskap
DOI
10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00006-8
PubMed
38453383