Table Talk

Could adopting a climatarian diet be the biggest single change each of us could make to reduce global warming? It's a big question, and possibly a big change for many of us, but James Hand, Co-Founder of Giki Zero, thinks it could have the biggest impact. In this episode of the Table Talk podcast, James sets out why and attempts to bust some myths around climatarian diets. He says that the average person in the UK has a carbon footprint of nine tonnes per year, and in order to meet CO2 reduction targets, that needs to come down to two tonnes. Our diet is one of the areas we have a lot of control of, and when you consider that food makes up around 25 per cent of the average person's carbon footprint, it's clear that making a positive change would have a big impact. But how easy and how realistic is it to expect everyone to make such a change? What are the main challenges for the average consumer? And can those challenges really be overcome? When thinking about the carbon footprint of the food