It took 26 years, and 26 COP summits, before food systems appeared on the agenda of the United Nations’ 27th annual global summit on climate change. But still, food systems – everything involved in how we grow, raise, catch, process, trade, transport, ...
COP27, the 27th annual United Nations climate-change summit held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, concluded on Friday, 18 November,
– but no progress on consolidating or improving the promises made at COP26 last year on limiting global heating to no more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, nor on phasing out fossil fuels., UN secretary-general António Guterres warned: “Our planet is still in the emergency room. We need to drastically reduce emissions now – and this is an issue this COP did not address. The world still needs a giant leap on climate ambition.
The summit had opened with a stern and terrifying rebuke from Guterres: “We are in the fight of our lives. And we are losing. We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” Extinction Rebellion activists protest against the use of fossil fuels outside the headquarters of Washington Gas in Washington, DC, on 8 July 2022. While methane burns more efficiently than coal, it still accounts for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
And yet, despite the fact that global food production contributes a full one-third of humanity’s acceleration to that “climate hell”, food systems’ role in the climate crisis was formally discussed for the first time at COP27.presented at COP27 concludes that the combined greenhouse gas emissions of 15 of the world’s largest meat and dairy companies are equal to more than 80% of the European Union’s entire methane “footprint”.
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