Hard cheese: carbon footprint

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🧀Carbon footprintHard cheese

6.28kg CO₂e / kg

1 kg

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Hard cheese comes in at about 6.28 kg CO₂e / kg (1 kg).

Of the 14 kitchen foods Carbonle tracks, Hard cheese sits at #10 from the lightest — one of the heaviest.

Aged cheese like Comté or Gouda: more milk per kilo, so heavier than soft.

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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.