At 10:00 on June 11, 2018, Giovanni Baiocchi, Associate Professor of University of Maryland College Park, was invited to visit CEEP and gave a talk entitled “National and Global Environmental Impacts of Improving Diets”. The report was hosted by Prof. Hua Liao, many teachers and students attended the report.

　　Dr Baiocchi is an Associate Professor in Department of Geographical Sciences and Affiliate Associate Professor in Department of Economics at University of Maryland College Park. His main research looks at the global and local impact of economic activity, including trade, urbanization, and lifestyles. He has published a wide range of interdisciplinary research in international multidisciplinary journals such as Ecological Economics, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Nature Climate Change, PNAS, Global Environmental Change, and Nature Sustainability, Science, etc. Dr Baiocchi was a lead author for the IPCC 5th Assessment for Working Group III, focusing on the drivers, trends, and mitigation of climate change and is an associate editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production.
　　In today's report, Dr Baiocchi mainly introduced that global food consumption is transitioning in a way that not only imposes pressure on the ecological environment but also adds to health risks. While scholars have been discussing whether shifting to healthy diets also realize a co-benefit in reducing environmental impacts, the spatial distribution of such change and the spillover effects due to the globalization of the food supply chain is under-explored. In this study, they evaluate the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land appropriation of shifting to dietary patterns at the global level. They compare the diet of each country in 2011 with the dietary recommendation from Global Burden of Disease Study to identify the change of food consumption in eradicating dietary health risks. Next, they adopt the environmentally-extended input-output analysis to quantify the GHG emissions and land appropriation resulting from the change of food consumption in each country, and further map the territorial environmental impacts based on the international trade network.