{"id":2503,"date":"2021-02-11T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2021-02-11T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:46:04","slug":"un-climate-conferences-2021-urges-world-to-shift-to-plant-based-diets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/news\/un-climate-conferences-2021-urges-world-to-shift-to-plant-based-diets\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Climate Conferences 2021: Plant-based Diets"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2503\" class=\"elementor elementor-2503\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0bbad3d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0bbad3d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-de0a5bc\" data-id=\"de0a5bc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e824c87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e824c87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>UN Climate Conferences 2021: Research Urges World to shift to Plant-based Diets<\/strong><\/p><p>International think tank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chatham House<\/a> has released a report &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/2021\/02\/food-system-impacts-biodiversity-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss<\/a>&#8221; ahead of the UN climate Conference.\u00a0This report is supported by both the United Nations Environment Programme (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNEP<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciwf.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compassion in World Farming<\/a>.<\/p><p>The paper explores the role global food production is\u00a0 accelerating biodiversity loss, destroying animals natural habitats, and contributing to total species extinction.<\/p><p>Identifying years of &#8220;cheaper food paradigm&#8221; where the only goal has been to produce large amount of food at the lower possible cost. This intensive agricultural\u00a0 is extensively damaging to soil health and productivity so relies on the use of fertilizer, pesticides, and water.<\/p><p>There solution to change this devastating effect on our planet is to encourage more plant-based diets.<\/p><p>They have three \u2018levers\u2019 for\u00a0 creating a more sustainable way to produce food and reducing pressures on land.<\/p><blockquote><p>Firstly, global dietary patterns need to converge around diets based more on plants, owing to the disproportionate impact of animal farming on biodiversity, land use and the environment. Such a shift would also benefit the dietary health of populations around the world, and help reduce the risk of pandemics. Global food waste must be reduced significantly. Together, these measures would reduce pressure on resources including land, through reducing demand.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>They other suggestion is moving from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monoculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monoculture<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polyculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polyculture<\/a> farming practices.<\/p><p>Helping the planet, protecting species by implementing more nature-friendly farming methods, feed more people, benefit dietary health, and help reduce the risk of pandemics!\u00a0<\/p><p>2021 will see the first world\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/food-systems-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Food Systems Summit<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/unfss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNFSS<\/a>) because of the need for change in the way our food is produced to improve &#8220;nutrition security&#8221;, protect public health and think about the future and environmental <span class=\"\u2022-No-break\">sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Climate Conferences 2021: Research Urges World to shift to Plant-based Diets International think tank Chatham House has released a report &#8220;Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss&#8221; ahead of the UN climate Conference.\u00a0This report is supported by both the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Compassion in World Farming. 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