Our Biggest CleanTechnica Food & Climate Stories For 2025 - CleanTechnica

The article from CleanTechnica reviews key food and climate stories from 2025, emphasizing the growing recognition of how dietary choices impact climate change. Throughout the year, multiple studies highlighted the urgent need for Western societies to rethink their diets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and environmental harm. Notably, Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness critiqued the plant-based meat industry’s early marketing as a climate solution, arguing that its politicization limited consumer adoption and contributed to declining faux meat sales in the U.S. The updated 2025 EAT-Lancet 2.0 report expanded on prior research by integrating multiple agro-economic and environmental models, emphasizing justice and inclusivity in food systems, and defining explicit planetary boundaries linking diets to climate, biodiversity, and resource cycles. Events such as Climate Week NYC showcased the intersection of food with technology, energy, AI, and business, highlighting collaborations aimed at strengthening food resilience through partnerships with farmers and local organizations. Discussions throughout the year also focused on transforming food