Influencers Called On To Steer Public Discourse On The Climate Impact Of Animal Agriculture

Influencers Called On To Steer Public Discourse On The Climate Impact Of Animal Agriculture

Share to Linkedin Limited public awareness of the environmental impact of animal agriculture is considered to be a major obstacle to effective climate change policy interventions, with a growing number of organizations and environmentalists advocating for a global call to action to fill the "livestock policy vacuum". One Cape Town, South Africa-based nonprofit by the name of 'Animal Agriculture and Climate Change' has launched a global campaign and petition, calling on influential environmental activists to more aggressively use their platforms to draw public attention to the significant impact that the meat industry has had on global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and to support veganism as a solution to saving the planet. The call to action comes some fifteen years after UN's Food and Agricultural Organization reported that the meat and dairy industry accounts for 14. 5% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions — more than cars, heavy goods vehicles, aviation and ships combined. Since then, a number of studies have argued that this is a drastically under-reported estimate. In 2018, an intensive five-year study by Oxford University and Agroscope, reported in Science, revealed that the global meat and dairy industries are accountable for 60 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions