Latest UN report warns: Change consumption habits, farming or endanger food and climate | World News, The Indian Express

Latest UN report warns: Change consumption habits, farming or endanger food and climate | World News, The Indian Express

Written by Abhimanyu Chakravorty |New Delhi |Updated: August 8, 2019 5:01:28 pm

Latest UN report warns: Change consumption habits, farming or endanger food and climate

"Delaying action ... could result in some irreversible impacts on some ecosystems, which in the longer term has the potential to lead to substantial additional emissions from ecosystems that would accelerate global warming," it said.

The latest IPCC report warned that humanity will face painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within a few decades unless it cuts down emissions and stops unsustainable farming and deforestation. (File)

A new report from the United Nations panel on climate change has suggested that human beings must drastically alter food production and consumption to prevent the debilitating effects of climate change. Dietary changes, featuring plant-based foods and sustainable animal-sourced food, could free up several million square kilometres of land by 2050 and potentially cut 0.7-8.0 gigatonnes a year of carbon dioxide equivalent, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in the report.