Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet

Schiermeier, Quirin

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The report on global land use and agriculture comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.

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  1. Quirin Schiermeier

Efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and the impacts of global warming will fall significantly short without drastic changes in global land use, agriculture and human diets, leading researchers warn in a high-level report commissioned by the United Nations.

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Nature 572, 291-292 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02409-7

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 08 August 2019: An earlier version of the story incorrectly stated that hundreds of experts compiled the latest IPCC report.

  • Update 08 August 2019: The fact that around half the experts who compiled the latest IPCC report hail from developing countries has been added to the story.

  • Correction 12 August 2019: An earlier version of this story described António Guterres as the UN’s climate secretary; he is in fact the UN secretary-general.

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