Fig. 3: Potential emissions and land-use benefits by country.
From: Food without agriculture
a,b, Cumulative distributions of CO2-equivalent GHG emissions (a) and land (b) related to soy (red bars) and oil palm (blue bars) agriculture in 2017 (ref. 3), sorted from most-to-least emissions and land-use intensiveness, respectively. In each case, a disproportionately large share of emissions and land use is concentrated in a handful of countries. Environmental benefits of synthetic fats would be greatest if such fats were preferentially substituted for those countries’ agricultural products.
