“Spis mindre kød” er den typiske overskrift for en ny særrapport om klimaændringer fra FN. Rapporten påpeger ganske korrekt behovet for forbedrede globale fødevaresystemer, men de kloge hoveder er fikseret på det angivelige behov for, at folk i rige lande ændrer deres spisevaner markant. Dette svar på problemet er en ineffektiv og uopnåelig politik.

Det er nemt at tænke på sult som en udfordring, den rige verden først blev opmærksom på i 1980erne, og som stort set blev løst ved hjælp af en række velgørende rockkoncerter. Det er rigtigt nok, at verden har gjort store fremskridt i bekæmpelsen af hungersnød over de sidste 30 år, først og fremmest som resultat af bedre landbrugsmetoder. Men på verdensplan tager manglen på fødevarer stadig et barns liv hvert tredje sekund.

‘Eat Less Meat” is the typical headline used to present a new United Nations report on climate change released Thursday. The report correctly points to the need to improve global food systems, but pundits are fixating on the supposed need for people in rich countries to change their dining habits radically. This is an ineffective and unachievable policy response.

Investimentos adicionais em nutrição na primeira infância são cruciais e devem ser uma alta prioridade para governos doadores e receptores, organizações multilaterais de desenvolvimento e fundações filantrópicas.

A year ahead of the US presidential election, exaggeration about global warming is greater than ever. While some politicians continue (incorrectly) to insist it’s made up, far more insist (also incorrectly) that we face an imminent climate crisis threatening civilization.

Around the world, we’re being told to stop eating meat. Headlines, think tanks and activists all ask us to change our diet to combat climate change. 

Un número creciente de países y autoridades locales están prohibiendo los plásticos de un solo uso. Esto es loable: ya que los plásticos obstruyen los desagües causando inundaciones, contaminan la naturaleza y matan animales y aves.

This year, the world will spend $US162 billion ($230bn) subsidising renewable energy, propping up inefficient industries and supporting middle-class homeowners to erect solar panels, according to the International Energy Agency. In addition, the Paris Agreement on climate change will cost the world from $US1 trillion to $US2 trillion a year by 2030. Astonishingly, neither of these hugely expensive policies will have any measurable impact on temperatures by the end of the century.

t’s easy to think of starvation as a challenge that entered the rich world’s consciousness in the 1980s and was largely solved through charity rock concerts. True, the world has made huge progress in combating mass starvation over the past 30 years, largely as a result of improved agricultural practices. Yet, globally, food deprivation still claims a child’s life every three seconds.