Vegan alternatives to butter
Swap matrix
Use these instead
plant butter
olive oil
Why the swap works
It does exactly the same job in coffee, cooking and baking, with no change in method.
The numbers
Swapping one kilo saves about 9 kg CO₂e. Do it once a week for a year and you avoid roughly 117 kg CO₂e — the same as driving a petrol car 585 km.
Sources: Poore & Nemecek (Science, 2018), FAO, USDA FoodData Central, Mekonnen & Hoekstra (2011).
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