Meat Carbon Footprint Calculator

Your details

The unit applied to every quantity field below.
How often you eat each quantity listed below.
Steaks, mince, burgers, roasts, processed beef products.
kg
Lamb chops, minced lamb, mutton stews.
kg
Chops, bacon, sausages, ham, processed pork.
kg
Breast, thigh, whole chicken, processed chicken.
kg
Whole turkey, turkey breast, deli turkey.
kg
Salmon, tilapia, trout and other farmed fish. Wild-caught fish typically has a lower footprint.
kg
One medium egg weighs about 50 g / 0.05 kg.
kg
Hard and soft cheeses. Milk has a lower footprint (~3.2 kg CO2e/kg).
kg
Annual carbon footprintHigh footprint
1,289kg CO2e

Total greenhouse-gas emissions from your animal-product consumption per year

Monthly carbon footprint107.4kg CO2e/month
Annual land use3,341m²/year
Annual freshwater use465,213litres/year
Equivalent car kilometres7,535km
Beef CO2936kg CO2e
Lamb CO20kg CO2e
Pork CO279kg CO2e
Chicken CO2126.9kg CO2e
Turkey CO20kg CO2e
Fish CO253kg CO2e
Eggs CO223.4kg CO2e
Cheese CO270.2kg CO2e
1,289 kg CO2e/yr
Very low<300Low300-700Average700-1200High1200-2000Very high2000+
Beef936
Lamb0
Cheese70.2
Pork79
Chicken126.9
Turkey0
Fish53
Eggs23.4

Your meat and animal-product diet emits about 1289 kg CO2e per year (107 kg/month).

  • Beef is your largest contributor, accounting for 73% of your total meat-related carbon footprint.
  • Your annual footprint of 1289 kg CO2e is equivalent to driving about 7535 km in a typical petrol car.
  • Your diet uses roughly 465 cubic metres of freshwater per year - water that irrigates feed crops and sustains livestock.
  • The EAT-Lancet Commission recommends keeping total food emissions below about 530 kg CO2e per year. Your animal-product contribution alone is 789 kg above that whole-diet target.

Next stepThe single most effective change is reducing beef and lamb: swapping one beef meal per week for chicken or legumes can cut your footprint by 100-200 kg CO2e per year.

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