Prawns: carbon footprint

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🦐Carbon footprintPrawns

20.3kg CO₂e / kg

1 kg

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Prawns comes in at about 20.3 kg CO₂e / kg (1 kg).

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

Farmed prawns top the list: cleared mangroves and energy-hungry ponds.

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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.