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Eaternity

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Eaternity is a research and climate organization headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.[1] Their female founder Judith Ellens was awarded digital shapers 2022.[2]

Eaternity has a focus on establishing a climate-friendly diet, which according to the Planetary health diet and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 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[3][4] and a poster,[5] each referencing the Global warming potential 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, 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[6][7] and advocate for CO₂ labeling of food.[8]

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.[9][10][11] The label includes indicators for climate, water, animal welfare, and rainforest deforestation.

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  1. ^ "'Eaternity', Switzerland: How much CO2 in a carrot?". impactjournalismday.com. 14 February 2019. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Diese 100 Köpfe digitalisieren die Schweiz". netzwoche.ch. 29 August 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-10-09. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  3. ^ "Der Klimarechner für deine Küche". tagesspiegel.de. 12 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Overcoming the Long Tail Problem: A Case Study on CO2-Footprint Estimation of Recipes using Information Retrieval". aclanthology.org. 2018. Archived from the original on 2022-10-11. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  5. ^ "All you can eat for climate poster". ayce.earth. 20 October 2021. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  6. ^ "CodeCheck & Eaternity Climate Score". CodeCheck. November 5, 2020. Archived from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  7. ^ Frangoul, Anmar (April 3, 2020). "How tech is helping to change the way people think about the food on their plate". CNBC. Archived from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  8. ^ Liebrich, Silvia (26 February 2020). "Die CO₂-Kennzeichnung von Lebensmitteln ist nötig". Süddeutsche.de. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  9. ^ Bunge, A. C.; Wickramasinghe, K.; Renzella, J.; Clark, M.; Rayner, M.; Rippin, H.; Halloran, A.; Roberts, N.; Breda, J. (1 November 2021). "The Lancet: Sustainable food profiling models to inform the development of food labels that account for nutrition and the environment: a systematic review". The Lancet Planetary Health. 5 (11): e818 – e826. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00231-X. PMID 34774122. S2CID 244027372.
  10. ^ "Veganz Launches Sustainability labels". vegconomist.com. 14 February 2019.
  11. ^ ""Climate-conscious" pizza slices up sustainability scores on the label". foodingredientsfirst.com. 8 March 2021. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
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