A plant-rich diet can avoid 0.675 to 1.126 Mton CO₂-eq in Gelderland by 2030. The climate gain comes from shifting demand toward lower-impact food and reducing pressure from animal feed, land use and livestock-related emissions.
The source treats this as a scope 3 solution: the emission reduction does not occur only within Gelderland and therefore does not fully count toward the final totals. Strategically, the measure remains important because food choices, short chains, regional crops, public procurement and farmer revenue models can reinforce one another in the agricultural transition.