ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Nestlé can’t contribute to ending climate change if they remain tied to animal agriculture

Swiss food heavyweight Nestlé pledges €3 Billion to cut down on climate change inducing emissions but won’t ditch meat and dairy Food giant Nestlé has pledged to spend €3 billion in the next five years to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. Last year the Swiss...

UN compares environmental damage to war

ClimateChange, Environment, GoodNews

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that the “planet is broken” and urges immediate change to save it from climate catastrophe. Guterres issued a searing indictment of humanity’s “war” on the environment Wednesday, in a speech on...

Achieving net-zero should be a key priority for all countries

ClimateChange

The world needs to lower its climate change inducing emissions. However, there are many challenges to achieving this. We have the breakdown. What is net-zero and why is it important? Put simply, net-zero means we are not adding new emissions to the atmosphere....

Advertising is helping to fuel animal agriculture

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange

Advertising that promotes animal agriculture such as meat and dairy are helping to drive an unsustainable industry that is poisoning the environment. A new report has warned of the impact advertising has in promoting overconsumption of carbon-intensive products, with...

Eat less beef to save lives and help the planet says the Lancet

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, HealthyLiving

Animal Agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than fossil-fueled transport as well as being detrimental to human health while exploiting animals. Getting more people around to world to cut down on eating beef could save lives by reducing heart...

Youth activists host mock COP26, urge action on climate change

ClimateChange, GoodNews

Delegates who attended the Mock COP26 event, after the UN’s COP26 was cancelled this year, make strong demands to world leaders on climate change. World leaders should commit to a climate-smart recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, recognise a new human right...