Biodiversity loss: Agriculture threatening 86% of at-risk species , says major UN-backed report
Global food systems are the world s biggest driver of nature loss and urgent systemic change to address this will result in an uptick of plant-based diets, according to a major new report.
The report names the shift away from animal protein as a lever for changing the global food system for the better
Produced by think-tank Chatham House and endorsed by the UN, the ‘Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss’ report provides a harrowing snapshot of the ways in which current land-use systems are fuelling Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction.
Warning for Scotland as landmark court ruling find France failed to meet own climate change goals
SCOTLAND has lessons to learn from a landmark ruling that found France at fault for failing to take enough action to tackle the climate crisis. So says Oxfam Scotland which says this is a wake-up call to governments around the world that their people can and will hold them to their climate promises. It said that while there there was significant progress in Scotland the last annual reduction target was not met and time isn t on our side in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.
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