How to eat could help protect the planet from climate change less meat

With drastically the food we eat to the change and how it is grown and produced, can help people to stop the devastating effects of climate change, according to the latest body of the United Nations report on climate science. More than 100 scientists from 52 countries together with the report, which was published by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It takes a look at how land use practices have hit the planet and discovers that deforestation, agriculture and other human activities threaten the world’s ability the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, in order to limit the target of 2015 in Paris Klimaabkomme. However, the report is not all bad news, noting that if most of the population of the world to plant nutrition and their shifts reduced meat consumption, could significantly increase the planet’s ability to combat climate change. “Some need more food choices earth and water, and heat-trapping emissions cause gas than others,” Debra Robert, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group II, said in a statement on Thursday. The IPCC report says that if people eat more foods plant-based and sustainable animal, the food that is going to generate “with great opportunities for adaptation and mitigation, while significant co-benefits in terms of human health.” much of the world already eats very little meat, says Timothy Searchinger, senior fellow at the world Resources Institute. Only about 25% of the world population, mostly rich countries like the United States, eating a lot of meat, he says. But richer than countries with historically low meat intake, eat more meat and put even more strain on the environment – unless something changes. “Large carnivores need to eat less,” says Searchinger. Meat such as beef and lamb is particularly inefficient production because cattle need a lot of room to graze, and the country is often the room, covered with forests are used. By lowering the amount of people eating meat would decrease the emissions from livestock and boost the amount of fertilizer required. The adoption of this kind of changes people the carbon dioxide emissions in the world could make several million square kilometers of land freely and 2050 to reduce by the year to a year to 8 gigatons, according to the report. Food waste is also an important issue, with more than a quarter of the food goes to waste time. Not only do people need to produce the amount of land to reduce the meat, but they also need to use more efficiently the country. Sustainable agriculture is necessary for this country to ensure the remains heated usable than the planet. This is particularly important because the report raises serious concerns about how climate change will damage food security. Parts of Africa, the high mountain regions of Asia and South America are already experiencing these problems, according to the report. “Food security will increasingly be affected by future climate change by the fall in interest rates – especially in the tropics – is rising prices, reduced quality and supply disruptions in the chain of nutrients,” said Priyadarshi Shukla, co the Chair of working group III. Countries that could be most affected by climate change are often places on low incomes who may not have been taxpayers that lead to global warming, the researchers said. Farmers in these places have to adapt reduced yields intense weather patterns, droughts and floods, and their country. Searchinger says this global need investment of agronomy improvements in food insecure communities help. “We also need the social security system for these farmers. We have so relatively few people are starving the social security system,” he said. “Here, if you are a poor farmer, they are starving and need to sell all the equipment, and then sat down.” The IPCC report provides some ideas on how to mitigate the impact of agriculture on climate change and how subject areas help maintain food production. But one of its main features is a call to action, experts say. “I’m excited about the IPCC to make some bold statements around the need to see the country, Food and Agriculture to focus,” Ruth Richardson, Managing Director of Global Alliance for the Future of Food, told TIME. “It ‘s so important because food systems and agriculture are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, those that part of the problem, but they are also an important part of the solution.” There are many barriers to suggestions around food report saying goodbye. Do not stop the country meat to eat, of course, but the search for the World Resources Institute points to the rise in popularity of meatless products such as Burger impossible as a hopeful sign. He hopes that if the public and politicians on how they see as a reminder that the food and agriculture are important factors in the fight against climate change. “When people think of solving climate change and they can do what governments have to think about agriculture,” he said.
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