The report by the U.N's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) urged less consumption of meat, better agricultural practices and reduced food waste to help combat global warming.
from 107 leading scientists warned that climate change threatened the world’s food supply, and tackling the problem would require big changes to eating habits and farming methods.
Earth’s landmasses, which make up 30% of the globe, are heating up twice as fast as the planet overall. While carbon dioxide, a major heat-trapping gas, is helping to make plants grow and become greener, scientists found that it also reduces nutritional value in some crops including wheat. Experiments show wheat suffered a 6%-13% drop in protein in high CO2 environments.
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