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19 February 2021 An expert panel discussed what to expect from the Biden administration’s climate policies over the next four years. The Forum at Imperial, with The Policy Institute at King's College London, brought together a panel of international experts to debate President Biden's climate policies, geopolitical pressures and the importance of science, technology and research for net zero. Professor Mary Ryan, who leads Imperial's Transition to Zero Pollution initiative, chaired the panel In front of an audience of the research community, policymakers, students, industry and the gen...

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us A new report says the global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. It calls for a global shift toward plant-based eating to stop the damage. The report, issued by the Chatham House think tank in London, notes that biodiversity loss is accelerating at an alarming pace. “The global rate of species extinction today is orders of magnitude higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years,” the report says. A...

SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service British Empire Think-Tank Tells World, We Intend To Take Away Your Food Feb. 5 , 2021 (EIRNS)—The lead story on Her Majesty’s Royal Institute of International Affairs since its Feb. 3 release, is a “Research Paper” laying out a strategy to systematically reduce food production and consumption worldwide. It proposes doing so by using methods similar to those being employed now to drive down energy use by banning fossil fuels—all in the name of defending “Nature.” The policy is not new—farmers have been protesting across the world against suc...

More than 80 per cent of global farmland, which chews up natural habitat, is used to raise animals for meat.

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 ar...