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Climate report urges change in human diet to improve land use

The IPCC shows how overconsumption and ill treatment of animals, forests and plants is making global warming worse.

The IPCC says more sustainable land use would add stability to the world's food supply.
The IPCC says more sustainable land use would add stability to the world's food supply. (AN/Thomas Vermeersch/Unsplash)

GENEVA (AN) — The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommended sweeping changes globally in food consumption and land use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions causing the planet to overheat.

The Nobel-prize winning IPCC, whose work synthesizes the findings from thousands of scientists and scientific papers, detailed its recommendations in a new special report on Thursday about the intersection between the climate crisis and poor land use.

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