The carbon footprint of Rice
Carbonle#29 of 43🍚Carbon footprintRice
4.45kg CO₂e / kg
Same as a 26 km drive · 10× a kilo of apples
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A kilogram of Rice works out to about 4.45 kg CO₂e (kg CO₂e / kg).
That lands it #29 of the 43 foods on Carbonle, one of the heaviest.
The number is a farm-to-shop average. It counts land use, growing, feed, processing, transport, retail and packaging, with methane folded in as its CO₂ equivalent.
Call it 10 times a kilo of apples (0.43 kg).
Growing a kilo throws off about as much CO₂ as a 26 km drive in a diesel car.
Modest. Fertiliser, the field itself, and a bit of milling.
Want to shrink a plate's footprint fast? This is the one to eat less of.
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Figures from OWID / Poore & Nemecek 2018, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.