Eaternity is a research and climate organization headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. Their female founder Judith Ellens was awarded digital shapers 2022.
Eaternity has a focus on establishing a climate-friendly diet, which according to the
Planetary health diet
The planetary health diet is a flexitarian diet created by the EAT-Lancet commission as part of a report released in ''The Lancet'' on 16 January 2019. The aim of the report and the diet it developed is to create dietary paradigms that have the fo ...
and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) a ...
is a necessity to stay within a 1.5° target. For this purpose, Eaternity provides public and free access to the carbon footprints of food products with a calculator and a poster, each referencing the
Global warming potential
Global warming potential (GWP) is the heat absorbed by any greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, as a multiple of the heat that would be absorbed by the same mass of carbon dioxide (). GWP is 1 for . For other gases it depends on the gas and the time ...
of more than 500 raw food products in CO2eq against the benchmark of our societal food consumption. The climate impact is calculated with a Scope3
Life-cycle assessment
Life cycle assessment or LCA (also known as life cycle analysis) is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service. For instance, in the case ...
, including rainforest deforestation, methane emissions from ruminants, production, processing, packaging, transport, and preservation.
They have published CO₂ calculations of more than 50'000 food retail products together with the Codecheck App and advocate for CO₂ labeling of food.
With Eaternity's eco-label food companies profile the environmental footprint on their products' packaging visible in more than 10'000 retail markets across Europe.
The label includes indicators for climate, water, animal welfare, and rainforest deforestation.
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