This paper (Gerbens-Leenes W, Nonhebel, S (2005), Appetite 45 (2005)) assesses the relationship between food consumption patterns and the use of agricultural land. Despite the physiological limit to food consumption, a difference of a factor of 6 was found between the land requirement for a hypothetical diet based on wheat and the requirement for an affluent diet based on existing consumption patterns. Even in Europe, large differences were observed between land requirements for existing food consumption patterns.

The European Environment Agency has published its latest edition of EU GHG trends and projections. The report assesses the current and projected progress of EU Member States, EU candidate countries and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and of progress towards the EU target for 2020.

Two reports written by researchers at the Tyndall Centre Manchester and Manchester Business School, and funded by the University of Manchester Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) were published in late 2008.