DIETING TO SAVE THE CLIMATE: New report says Western ... - Western Standard

DIETING TO SAVE THE CLIMATE: New report says Western countries need to cut red meat to meet climate goals | Business | westernstandard.news
Governments must introduce policies to discourage consumption of specific food staples including red meat if the planet is to limit global warming to 2C over the next century, according to a report by the London-based Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), which also advocates banning the internal combustion engine and cash transfers to third world countries amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars per year. In all, the ETC says investments in green technology would need to quadruple to more than $3.5 trillion per year if the world is to meet climate change goals adopted under thee Paris Accord. In addition to massive government subsidies for new technologies, governments would need to enact policies to make deforestation illegal which in turn would require restrictions on the consumption of food products like red meat and palm oil, it said.

Shaun Polczer is an Energy Reporter and lifelong Albertan who has covered the Canadian oil and gas industry for more than 25 years. He began his career at rural weeklies in Redwater and Dayton Valley before moving onto progressively senior positions at the Daily Oil Bulletin, Calgary Herald and Petroleum Economist in London. He has freelanced extensively for financial publications in New York and Houston.