What if we put a price on food's carbon?

Set a global greenhouse-gas price - and, under a flexible diet, how much a year of healthy life is worth - and watch the world's croplands, diets, animal feed, emissions and health burden reorganise as the GLADE model re-optimises the food system. Everything updates live from a neural-network surrogate of the model.

Carbon price 0 USD / t CO2-eq
Value of a life-year 0 USD / year of life
million years of life lost / yr
Advanced: other model uncertainties held at central estimates · click to adjust
Cropland use colour = main crop group · fade = cropland per land area · hover a region for the breakdown
Pasture & grazing land shade = pasture per land area · hover a region for details
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Net food-system emissions
0Gt CO2-eq / yr
System cost USD trillion / yr · the components summed
Global diet g / person / day · plant-based → animal-based
Animal feed Mt dry matter / yr · by source