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

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

In the next 100 years I predict that we go back to beans as a protein source, humans do not need to be eating the amount of meat we do. Too many cow farts fucking biz up.

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