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",{"label":20,"URL":22},{"en_GB":21},"","https://planeatcenter.com/discover/true_cost_accounting/68592a4dfaef3eda8e327f47",{"type":24,"index":25,"variation":26,"imageURL":21,"title":27,"description":29},"title_and_text",1,"title_image_description",{"en_GB":28},"PREREQUISITES",{"en_GB":30},"Conducting a TCA analysis of diets requires national food consumption data, environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data, social risk assessment data, health cost assessment data, and monetization data. Engagement with experts in nutrition, environmental assessment, public health, and social sustainability is recommended to support interpretation and implementation of results.",{"type":32,"index":33,"variation":13,"imageURL":34,"title":35,"description":37},"image_and_text",2,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/ef66d6ff-c71c-4610-8177-98af12f550aa",{"en_GB":36},"STEP 1: DIET MAPPING AND DEFINITION",{"en_GB":38},"- Current diets were mapped using national food consumption data.\n- National food-based dietary guidelines and the Planetary Health Diet were modelled for comparison with current diets.\n- Representative food items were selected to model all diets and scaled to reflect dietary consumption, enabling consistent comparison across diets.",{"type":32,"index":40,"variation":13,"imageURL":41,"title":42,"description":44},3,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/77fba7d8-99dc-4314-848e-f56c7a54d0bb",{"en_GB":43},"STEP 2: ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS ASSESSMENT",{"en_GB":45},"- Environmental impacts of diets were assessed using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).\n- Representative food products were selected and modeled to estimate their environmental impacts per kilogram of food.\n- These product-level impacts were then aggregated at diet level to calculate the environmental impacts of diets.\n- The ReCiPe 2016 method was used to quantify environmental impacts of food products such as greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and eutrophication.\n- To estimate environmental costs of diets, these impacts were monetized using factors from CE Delft’s Environmental Prices Handbook, which use the damage-costs approach. Damage costs represent the harm caused by an environmental impact in terms of monetary value. Other valuation methods may be chosen depending on the question at hand, for example using prevention costs to estimate what it would cost to avoid the environmental damage.",{"type":32,"index":47,"variation":13,"imageURL":48,"title":49,"description":51},4,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/ed76d310-a06f-4755-8da6-a425c82b26d0",{"en_GB":50},"STEP 3: HEALTH COSTS ASSESSMENT",{"en_GB":52},"- Diet-related health impacts were assessed using a cost-of-illness approach.\n- Dietary intake was linked to nutrition-related risk factors and major noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.\n- Disease burden was quantified using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and monetized using national cost-of-illness estimates including both direct (healthcare related) and indirect (productivity loss) health costs. ",{"type":32,"index":54,"variation":13,"imageURL":55,"title":56,"description":58},5,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/63575eba-25a0-4e0a-866b-7d4dd41109fa",{"en_GB":57},"STEP 4: SOCIAL RISKS ASSESSMENT",{"en_GB":59},"- Social risks of diets were assessed using a Social Life Cycle Assessment (sLCA) approach. \n- The Social Hotspots Database was used to identify social risk hotspots in food supply chains, including risks related to labour conditions and human rights.\n- Producer prices required for the SHDB social risk assessment were derived from FAOSTAT and EUROSTAT for the modeled food products.\n- Social risks were assessed at product level and aggregated to diets, enabling comparison of social risk profiles across dietary scenarios.\n- Assessing social risks is methodologically challenging due to the relatively limited methods and the reliance on incomplete secondary data; therefore, a semi-quantitative social risk assessment was conducted instead of a monetary impact assessment.",{"type":32,"index":61,"variation":13,"imageURL":62,"title":63,"description":65},6,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/1d9c3dd0-07dd-4136-b93b-9d882093b452",{"en_GB":64},"STEP 5: INTERPRETING THE RESULTS AND RETRIVING POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ",{"en_GB":66},"The results: \n- provide an integrated assessment of diets across environmental, health, and social dimensions, offering a comprehensive sustainability perspective;\n- identify key food groups and consumption patterns that drive negative environmental and health impacts and the associated hidden costs and social risks;\n- can inform food and nutrition policies by promoting dietary patterns that minimize overall health and environmental impacts and social risks;\n- can guide policy interventions (e.g. fiscal measures, public procurement, dietary advice) by highlighting where shifts in consumption can deliver the greatest societal benefits; and\nNote: When assessing social risks, it should be noted that social risk assessment results do not represent absolute values; they indicate risk hotspots and should be interpreted accordingly.",{"type":68,"index":69,"variation":70,"title":71,"button1":73,"button2":77,"button3":81,"button4":83},"button_group",7,"title_top",{"en_GB":72},"READ MORE",{"URL":74,"label":75},"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/1a182981-7414-4f12-86f5-5f2be0f89d81",{"en_GB":76},"Full report",{"URL":78,"label":79},"https://planeatcenter.com/discover/true_cost_accounting/688b220017476cff8bfc242f",{"en_GB":80},"Recommendations",{"URL":21,"label":82},{"en_GB":21},{"URL":21,"label":84},{"en_GB":21},{"type":86,"index":87,"variation":88,"URL":89,"imageURL":90,"title":91},"image_with_link",8,"title_top_image_bottom","https://www.tmg-thinktank.com/","https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/3673387d-22d2-4e22-b704-5b1c7ad96638",{"en_GB":92},"CONTACT",[94,95,96,97,98,99,100],"true cost accounting","sustainable diet","food systems","environmental impacts","social impacts","health impacts","methodology",1776157867362]