Carbon Footprint:Pork
One serving of Pork (100g) is equivalent to:
2.4 kg CO₂e
12.2 km of driving
The equivalent kilometres of driving emissions in an average small petrol car. Learn more.
1.31 m³ of CO₂ gas
Carbon footprints depend on many changing factors - where something is made, the energy mix used and how far it travels - so any single product's footprint will vary. Use these figures to understand what is higher or lower, not as an exact calculation for your situation.
Amount of CO₂ Gas
Compared to the size of a human.
One serving of Pork (100g) is equivalent to 1.31 m³ of CO₂ gas.
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Source information
- Poore & Nemecek, Science (2018) - Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers (mean values, scaled to portion size) doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq0216
Mean (average) GHG emissions from Poore & Nemecek (2018), converted to the portion size.
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