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ArticleNature food2026

Youth lead current dietary emissions while seniors increasingly drive total emission growth.

Yanxian Li, Jin Yan, Pan He, Prajal Pradhan, Shuai Fang, Yuli Shan, Franco Ruzzenenti, Klaus Hubacek

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Yanxian LiKey Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1947-7541
Jin YanFudan Tyndall Center and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Air Quality and Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Pan HeDepartment of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1088-6290
Prajal PradhanIntegrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES), Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0491-5489
Shuai FangBusiness School, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Yuli ShanSchool of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. y.shan@bham.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5215-8657
Franco RuzzenentiIntegrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES), Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Klaus HubacekIntegrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES), Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. k.hubacek@rug.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2561-6090

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diets across age groups vary in both nutritional quality and greenhouse gas emissions, yet their relationship remains poorly understood in the context of population aging and evolving dietary patterns. We evaluated dietary emissions associated with 141 products across 22 age groups in 149 countries from 2000 to 2019, combining age-specific dietary intake from the Global Dietary Database with a consumption-based emission inventory derived from FAOSTAT. We quantified changes in emissions alongside shifts in nutritional quality and examined contributions of demographic and dietary factors. Adolescents and young adults generally had the highest per capita dietary emissions, while seniors contributed most to global emission growth, particularly in high- and upper-middle-income countries. Increased meat intake was a leading contributor to rising emissions and frequently coincided with declining nutritional quality. These findings highlight the need for dietary-emission mitigation efforts across age groups that account for demographic shifts, nutritional needs and national development contexts.

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