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The world on a plate: reducing the food chain's role in greenhouse gas emissions

The Food Climate Research Network is a UK research council-funded initiative. It works to research & promote ways of achieving absolute reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the whole UK food chain. See here for more information about the FCRN and here for a powerpoint presentation of the central food/climate issues.


UPCOMING EVENT

Cooking up a storm - report cover - click here to download

Cooking up a storm:
Food, greenhouse gas emissions and our changing climate

This FCRN report, published in September 2008 sets out what we know about the food system’s contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Taking a life cycle perspective, it looks at how emissions arise, explores the global impact of a changing climate on how we grow, distribute, produce and consume food, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the life cycle analysis methodology upon which the report has drawn.

FEATURED INTERVIEW

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LowHub

Lowhub is a specialist, sustainable food delivery company, providing low carbon delivery in electric vehicles, or fuelled with biodiesel produced from used cooking oil. LowHub deliver wholesale food on behalf of local collectives, wholesale market traders, and independent producers to restaurants, large retailers, hotels & delicatessens across Central London.

Read the interview here.

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FCRN is funded by a three year grant from the EPSRC and is based at the University of Surrey's Centre for Environmental Strategy.

Web design: the Argument by Design

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