Transforming land use: Alternative proteins for U.S. climate and biodiversity success

Event description The United States has ambitious land conservation targets and climate goals. We can make significant progress in achieving these goals by diversifying American protein sources to include land-efficient alternative proteins while reducing the proportion of protein derived from land-intensive, animal-based foods. Join GFI and Highland Economics for a webinar presenting the findings from a recent analysis exploring the U.S. land use opportunities of alternative proteins. Discover how incorporating alternative proteins into the American food supply significantly reduces U.S. land requirements for food production and would enable large-scale restoration of U.S. habitats with significant climate and biodiversity opportunities. During this webinar, you’ll learn how alternative proteins: Enable nature-based solutions by vastly improving the land-use efficiency of American protein sources. Enable large-scale restoration of threatened U.S. ecosystems. Create space to maximize carbon sequestration through the restoration of forests and riparian areas. Join us to explore how this shift in land use would position the United States to achieve its environmental and climate goals while maintaining its leadership in agriculture and land stewardship.