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Aug 31, 2022
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COMPILED BY TERRY ROBSON
Food transport emissions
niversity of Sydney researchers have conducted an analysis incorporating 74 countries and looking at transport distances feeding into sectors including vegetables and fruit, livestock, coal and manufacturing. They found that global food systems contribute about 30 per cent of total human-produced greenhouse gas emissions. Of that, food transport contributes 19 per cent (three gigatonnes of emissions annually) and
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