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Food, farming and forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, UN says

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Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations’ climate panel

  by Leah Douglas – Reuters

 

But the changes are unlikely to happen unless governments act to spur them along, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released on Monday found.

“If meat is produced sustainably, it can support soil carbon and nutrients. But if produced unsustainably, it can cause large net emissions
 
 
 

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