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Go veggie, cut fossil fuels to aid planet - study
OSLO: An overhaul of world farming and more vegetarianism should be top priorities to protect the environment, along with curbs on fossil fuel use, a UN-backed study said on Wednesday.
The report said food production and fossil fuel use caused pollution, greenhouse gases, diseases and forest destruction.
“How the world is fed and fuelled will in large part define development in the 21st century,” said the 112-page report by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management.
“Agricultural production accounts for a staggering 70 percent of the global freshwater consumption, 38 percent of the total land use and 14 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions,” said Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Programme.
The report said consumers could help by cutting down on meat consumption and use of fossil fuels in heating or travel.
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Go veggie, cut fossil fuels to aid planet - study
OSLO: An overhaul of world farming and more vegetarianism should be top priorities to protect the environment, along with curbs on fossil fuel use, a UN-backed study said on Wednesday.
The report said food production and fossil fuel use caused pollution, greenhouse gases, diseases and forest destruction.
“How the world is fed and fuelled will in large part define development in the 21st century,” said the 112-page report by the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management.
“Agricultural production accounts for a staggering 70 percent of the global freshwater consumption, 38 percent of the total land use and 14 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions,” said Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Programme.
The report said consumers could help by cutting down on meat consumption and use of fossil fuels in heating or travel.
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