Carbon Footprint in Meat Production and Supply Chains

3 4 All human activities, including food production, are potentially sources of Green House Gases 5 emissions. Obtaining an inventory of GHG emissions from different production and supply 6 chains may help to mitigate these emissions. In this study three different beef meat production 7 and supply chain were analyzed, starting from the farms where the cattle is produced, two of 8 them in the United Kingdom – UK and one in the state of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil, named in 9 this study as UK1, UK2, and Brazil. GHG emissions were quantified throughout the production 10 and supply chains until the meat achieve the final market in the UK. Total emissions per kg of 11 bone-free meat available in London market, for UK1, UK2 and Brazil farms production and 12 supply chains, calculated in this study are 33.85, 33.99 and 45.17 kg of CO2e-100/kg, 13 respectively. 14 15