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emissions, this is equivalent to 82,000 fewer people taking a return trip from London to New York over the course of a year.. The researchers argue that if the Pope reinstated meatless Fridays across the global church, it could mitigate millions of tons of greenhouse gases annually.
"Meat agriculture is one of the major drivers of greenhouse gas emissions. If the Pope was to reinstate the obligation for meatless Fridays to all Catholics globally, it could be a major source of low-cost emissions reductions," Larcom said,"even if only a minority of Catholics choose to comply, as we find in our case study."
People in England and Wales eat an average of 100 grams of meat a day, according to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey . Researchers calculated that even the small reduction in meat intake by a section of the Catholic population was equal to each working adult across the whole of England and Wales cutting two grams of meat a week out of their diet.
fell by around eight grams per person in the"treatment jurisdiction" of England and Wales following the re-establishment of the Catholic obligation, compared to the rest of the UK. "Our results highlight how a change in diet among a group of people, even if they are a minority in society, can have very large consumption and sustainability implications," said co-author Dr. Po-Wen She, a fellow of Cambridge's Department of Land Economy.
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