Source record
Including carbon emissions from deforestation in the carbon footprint of Brazilian beef
Christel Cederberg et al. (2011).
Key findings
- Brazilian beef excluding land-use change is about 28 kg CO₂e/kg carcass; newly deforested Amazon land can be much higher.
Record
- Source type
- Peer Reviewed Study
- Study type
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Topics
- Climate & emissions
- Geography
- See study or jurisdiction in title
- Funding & conflicts
- Not recorded.
- Source quality
- Moderate evidenceImported from the dated research notes; original-source editorial verification remains pending.
Limitations
- Frontier estimates are not national averages; amortisation period strongly changes land-use-change results.
Statistics we use from this source
- 28kg CO₂e per kg carcassBrazil beef, excluding land-use change
Claims this source supports
EnvironmentStrong evidence
Per gram of protein, beef from dedicated beef herds produces roughly 25 times the greenhouse gas emissions of tofu and 60 times those of pulses; the ratio to peas is over 100.
Beef is in a different league from plant proteins on emissions. Chicken and eggs sit in between.