Europe’s animal farming sector has exceeded safe bounds for greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient flows and biodiversity loss, and urgently needs to be scaled back, according to a major report. Pressure on livestock farmers is set to intensify this century as global population and income growth raises demand for meat-based products beyond the planet’s capacity to supply it. The paper’s co-author, Professor Allan Buckwell, endorses a Greenpeace call for halving meat and dairy production by 2050, and his report’s broadside is squarely aimed at the heart of the EU’s policy establishment.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/what-safe-operating-space-eu-livestock
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/2018_RISE_LIVESTOCK_FULL.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/allan-buckwell
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/elisabet-nadeu
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/rise-foundation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/livestock
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/animal-products
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/european-union-eu
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
