Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet

        

        
            
        
        
            
                
                    
                        

    
        
            
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                08 August 2019
                
                        Correction 08 August 2019
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                        Correction 12 August 2019
                
            

            

            
                
                
                    The report on global land use and agriculture comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.
                
            
        
        
            
    
        
            
                
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                    Efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and the impacts of global warming will fall significantly short without drastic changes in global land use, agriculture and human diets, leading researchers warn in a high-level report commissioned by the United Nations. 
                    
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                Nature 572, 291-292 (2019)
                doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02409-7
                
                    Updates & Corrections
                    
                                Correction 08 August 2019: An earlier version of the story incorrectly stated that hundreds of experts compiled the latest IPCC report. 
                            
                                Update 08 August 2019: The fact that around half the experts who compiled the latest IPCC report hail from developing countries has been added to the story.
                            
                                Correction 12 August 2019: An earlier version of this story described António Guterres as the UN’s climate secretary; he is in fact the UN secretary-general.
                            
                    
                

            
            
                
            

            
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