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Opinion: Over two-thirds of our food footprint is attributable to animal-based foods, which are much more energy and land-intensive.

US News: Wealthy countries have reduced their financial commitments for helping developing nations cope with climate change, according to a United Nations repo

As climate change makes extreme weather events more intense and frequent, the world must spend hundreds of billions more a year - 10 to 18 times more than it currently spends - helping vulnerable people adapt to mounting devastation, United Nations experts said Thursday. The warning comes as millions of people suffer amid severe droughts, catastrophic wildfires and ruinous floods fueled by rising global temperatures. It also comes less than a month before the next U.N. Climate Change Conference,

Rich country promises of help for poorer ones to adapt to climate change have slowed despite more frequent extreme weather, with a shortfall now 50% bigger than previously estimated, a U.N. agency said in a report said on Thursday. The $100 billion pledge, which has not been fully secured, was aimed at helping poorer countries not only mitigate climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but also to adapt to rising temperatures and sea levels. However, the annual financing shortfall for adaptation alone now stands at $194 billion to $366 billion, with existing financial flows reachin...

Promises from rich countries to help poorer ones adapt to climate change are not increasing on the scale needed to meet the funding gaps leaving the world’s most vulnerable people at risk, a United Nations…