ABSTRACT
Accounting for a third of emissions, the food system plays an important part in anthropogenic emissions and so is crucial in bringing emissions within safe limits. This chapter looks at the challenge of changing food consumption patterns to help deliver a safer world and address human-induced catastrophic climate change over the coming decades. It first examines the global evolution of humanity’s unsustainable diet before turning to look at the UK case in more detail. It considers how behaviour change might be managed in relation to diet and then sets out the key strategies that have been advocated for what has been called the “great food transformation”.
