The Climate Summit Starts to Crack a Tough Nut: Emissions From Food
www.nytimes.com
A road map to trim the climate footprint of food shows how hard it is to feed the world on a hotter planet.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/4843563

More than two-thirds of the world’s countries endorsed an agreement to retool the global food system, though it’s vague, lacks concrete targets, and is nonbinding. The United Nations food agency issued a landmark report laying out what it would take to align the global food system with the goal to limit average global temperature rise to manageable levels. The United States and the United Arab Emirates together committed about $17 billion toward agricultural innovations to address climate change.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Thing is, we’re going to need to address both fossil fuels and meat production as sources of greenhouse gases. Fossil fuels are definitely the bigger problem, but meat is big enough to need to deal with too.