The message from the un experts today is clear we all need to eat less meat to help fight Climate Change. The uns climate panel, the ipcc, have released the most comprehensive report on land use and Climate Change ever compiled, and it makes for sober reading. It says one quarter of global emissions are because of the food we eat, more than half of that is from animals. The report was released in geneva. Roger harrabin sent this report from there. This alpine landscape was covered by forest, the trees sucked Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere and regulated the climate. Then humans cleared some of the land for food, but cattle birthed methane and that strongly heeds the atmosphere. The sort of low intensity grazing may produce protein from poor soil and it does have some environmental benefits. But it still creates more Greenhouse Gases than growing plant protein. Scientist meeting here in the alps are not saying we have all got to go vegan to protect the claimant, they are saying that
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War. David what can opec do about it . I will put a chart that illustrates what youve been saying. Outlook is down, normally that would drive prices up, but now prices coming down. That points out it is the main issue. Opec cannot do much about that, can they . Kevin helen absolutely not. Saudi arabia has been leading the cuts opec and its allies agreed in terms if the amount they can take off the market. Saudi arabia has voluntarily cut much more than a pledge to do. The fact that crude prices in london are around 60 a barrel, well believe the level most opec producers need to balance their budget, there is not a huge amount more they can do. As you mentioned before, prices are reacting to what has been going on in terms of expectations of Global Economic growth and the slumping equities we have seen recently. This week in particular weve seen a lot of volatile a couple of days ago there was a 5 drops in crude prices on both sides of the atlantic. Both brent and wti. As you can see, t
Im hoping they will. A special report from inside kashmir in lockdown cut off since sunday after india removed its special status. The anger inside isnt really spilling out onto the streets as we have seen happen before in kashmir. The reason for that is people arent able to communicate and the tight security deployment. Its exactly 50 years since the beatles walked across that zebra crossing in abbey road for their seminal album cover. And at 11 30pm well be taking another look at the papers with our reviewers Rachel Cunliffe from city am and joe twyman from deltapoll uk. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. A major United Nations report on land use and Climate Change says we should all be eating less meat and making ourdiets more pla nt based. The un experts at the ipcc say were consuming too many meat and diary products in the west and its helping to fuel Global Warming. But their new report stops short of saying people should become vegetarian or vegan. Heres our science editor David