Coffee vs Farmed fish: carbon footprint
Coffee or Farmed fish? Here's what each one costs the climate, measured per kilo over its whole life.
Coffee runs about 28.53 kg CO₂e a kilo. Farmed fish runs 13.63.
Coffee is the heavier choice, about 2.1× Farmed fish.
Swap Coffee for Farmed fish and you cut about 14.9 kg a kilo, near 52% off.
Per kilo, that gap is a 87 km drive in a diesel car.
Coffee: Comes from growing and processing the crop, plus whatever it ships in.
Farmed fish: Farmed fish and shrimp pay for feed, energy to run the ponds, and sometimes cleared mangroves.
Per-kilo numbers skip portion size and how the food was farmed, so take them as the shape of things, not the last word.
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Figures from OWID / Poore & Nemecek 2018, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.