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Published: September 9th, 2008

Rajendra Pachauri, who currently chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002 and who recently won the Nobel Peace Price along with Al Gore, said at a speech in London on Monday evening that “meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport” and that “changing diets is something one should consider”.

“The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that direct emissions from meat production account for about 18% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions,” he told BBC News.

“So I want to highlight the fact that among options for mitigating climate change, changing diets is something one should consider.”

You can read more about this over at BBC News.

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Simon Leufstedt is the founder and editor of Green Blog – an environment blog with authors from around the world. He is also the admin of Enviro Space - a place to meet, discuss and interact with other people who share your interests and ideas. Simon has previously studied Global Environmental Justice and is currently busy working with the Swedish TckTckTck organisation and learning everything there is to know about Human Ecology at the Lund University in Sweden.
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  • Thanks for this blog article, was an interesting read.
  • It's funny that environmentalists don't address this issue more often. At this point it's pretty common knowledge that the amount of meat produced and consumed is harmful to our environment, yet people often act as if this is news to them, or don't address it at all. I applaud Rajendra Pachauri and Green-Blog.org for getting the word out so that eventually it may be an aspect of environmentalism that environmentalists can't just ignore.
  • It's interesting how two seemingly different philosophies (vegetarianism and environmentalism) can intersect in such an unexpected way. But the question becomes, should we solve emissions problems by boycotting the manufacturers, or simply implementing new eco-friendly standards that processing plants would be forced to meet? My guess is that capitalism always trumps ecology, so until the government can get its head on straight and put better policies in place, we would do well to boycott high-emissions products.
  • On the other hand, a larger population can be supported on a vegetarian diet....
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