Olive Oil & Sustainability

I am trying to eat a sustainable diet, does extra virgin olive oil fit in?

Not only is EVOO part of a healthy diet, it is also part of a healthy environment. The International Olive Council’s True Healthy Olive Cultivar (THOC) project is focused, in part, on the olive sector’s carbon footprint. Agriculture and livestock contribute ~14% of greenhouse gas emissions, but studies show that olive trees actually fix Co₂ in the soil. In fact, if we take all of the land used to grow olive trees in the world, it can store the equivalent of Co₂ produced by a city of 7 million people! Another way to think about the environmental health benefits of EVOO is that for every liter of EVOO produced, olive trees remove 10kg of Co₂ from the atmosphere.