Andre Deppermann

Abstract Plant-based animal product alternatives are increasingly promoted to achieve more sustainable diets. Here, we use a global economic land use model to assess the food system-wide impacts of a global dietary shift towards these alternatives.

Correction to: Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00790-1. Published online 3 July 2023. In the version of this article initially published, an overview sentence was missing at the beginning of the Fig. 3 legend: “Environmental impacts under different scenarios (left) and the projected changes in the FoodSystem scenario relative to the Reference scenario in 2060 (right)”. The sentence has been inserted in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Abstract Global emissions scenarios play a critical role in the assessment of strategies to mitigate climate change. The current scenarios, however, are criticized because they feature strategies with pronounced overshoot of the global temperature goal, requiring a long-term repair phase to draw temperatures down again through net-negative emissions. Some impacts might not be reversible. Hence, we explore a new set of net-zero CO2 emissions scenarios with limited overshoot.