Dietary Shifts to Mitigate Climate Crises: Barriers, Motivations and Willingness

Abstract

In order the world to realize the target set in Paris agreement and mitigate climate challenge, noticeable change in the global diet should be reached. While present global food system contributes significantly to climate change; environmental friendly, nutritionally balanced and sustainably produced diet present considerable chance to deal with climate change. Despite the difference in the reasons behind, both developed and developing countries are facing many challenges to call for sustainable and climate smart diet. The high prevalence and persistence malnutrition in developing countries, as well as the high foot-print of the diet in developed countries complicate the call for paradigm shift to sustainable and environmental smart diet. This chapter is messaging several strategies including the development of climate friendly food behavior, dietary modification marked with reduction in food waste and loss, as well as aligning dietary awareness with climate challenges. Through different pathways, this work highlights how global diets further exacerbates the already-huge problem of climate change and suggests orientations for sustainable dietary system aligned with diet footprint analysis.