At COP28, The Climate Cops Are Coming For Your Burger

The diplomats and heads of state of nearly 200 countries are dining on gourmet wagyu beef burgers and succulent steaks in Dubai where they are attending the 28th United Nations Conference of the Parties on climate change.

One of the main goals of the conference, however, is to make sure you eat less meat. [emphasis, links added]

The United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization is releasing its first-ever “global food systems road map” at COP28, a document designed to reduce meat consumption in wealthy countries such as the United States.

“Countries are realizing now at least that they have to include food systems within [their climate plans],” Raphael Podselver, ProVeg International’s director of U.N. affairs, said.

“There is still a lack of connection with the key topic, which is of course livestock, and I would say the rebalancing of protein intake between the [Global] North and the [Global] South.”

In other words, the Marxists who run the U.N. and its nongovernmental organization clients want to redistribute your hamburgers to poorer countries.

The document is nonbinding, but the same international banking cartels that are forcing disinvestment from domestic energy production have their sights set on defunding American meat producers as well.

“The failure of leading meat and dairy companies to reduce emissions underlines the urgent need for more policy focus on the food and agriculture sector,” FAIRR Initiative Chairman Jeremy Coller said in a statement.

“Investors hope the first-ever publication of a food and agriculture road map at COP28 this month will catalyze the transition to 1.5 degrees and a more sustainable food system.”

American farmers would rather the U.N. and its wealthy international investors butt out.

“Regulating producers out of business in the U.S. will not effectively address climate change, but export production to foreign countries with hostile regimes and worse emissions profiles while harming food security and affordability,” House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson (R-PA) said in a statement. “Simply put, the world needs American farmers and ranchers more than the UN.”

Thompson is right. Globally, agriculture contributes one-third of all carbon emissions. But in the United States, it’s just 10%. American farmers are efficient at delivering the meat consumers want.

Taking meat off your dinner table is not the only thing U.N. bureaucrats are plotting in Dubai.

John Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, signed the U.S. into something called the Powering Past Coal Alliance, which commits us to build no new coal power plants and to phase out existing ones.

Again, the agreement is not binding, but don’t be lulled by that; the goal is to cut coal emissions to zero by 2035.

Since just under 20% of electricity in the U.S. comes from coal, and President Joe Biden is only looking to increase electricity consumption through electric vehicle mandates, that goal will not be reached. But technical impracticality never slowed climate cultists before.

The Biden administration also announced new methane regulations for the oil industry in Dubai that will hit small producers, further concentrating the oil sector while raising energy prices for everyone.

The climate cops in Dubai and here at home know they would lose in a landslide at the ballot box if they were transparent about the goals of their policies. That is why so many of their regulations are hidden in nonbinding guidance documents.

But the end result is the same — higher prices in supermarkets and at gas pumps. Average Americans are made to suffer so Kerry and his ilk can jet around the world for a steak dinner.

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