Environmental impacts of changes to healthier diets in Europe

► We analysed environmental impacts of the current EU27 diet and three healthier diets lower in meat. ► We used environmentally extended input output analysis plus dynamic modeling using CAPRI. ► We found that our moderate diet changes reduce impacts only with 8%. ► First and second order rebounds make environmental benefits even less. ► Only higher reductions in meat but also milk consumption can give more environmental benefits.