Butter: carbon footprint

Carbonle#11 of 14

🧈Carbon footprintButter

7.91kg CO₂e / kg

1 kg

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Butter comes in at about 7.91 kg CO₂e / kg (1 kg).

Of the 14 kitchen foods Carbonle tracks, Butter sits at #11 from the lightest — one of the heaviest.

Almost all cow. A kilo of butter outweighs a kilo of chicken.

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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.