Beer: carbon footprint

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🍺Carbon footprintBeer

1.34kg CO₂e / kg

1 litre (≈ 1 kg)

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Beer comes in at about 1.34 kg CO₂e / kg (1 litre (≈ 1 kg)).

Of the 14 kitchen foods Carbonle tracks, Beer sits at #4 from the lightest — one of the lightest.

Nearly half of it is the bottle and the can, not the brew.

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Figures from ADEME AGRIBALYSE 3.2 (2025), via impactco2.fr; Licence Ouverte 2.0, licensed Licence Ouverte 2.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.