Britain needs to plant more trees, eat less meat and scrap wood-burning stoves to help stop global warming, the Government’s climate advice body warned today.
A report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said ‘fundamental changes’ to the way we use land are needed to stop the planet overheating.
Boosting woodland cover from 13 percent today to 19 percent by 2050, restoring as much as 70 percent of UK peatland, planting more hedgerows and encouraging more mixed farming could help deliver needed emissions cuts, it added.
The report, Biomass In A Low Carbon Economy, warned that recycling will need to be greatly stepped up. ‘By 2025 no bio-degradable wastes such as food, paper, card, wood, textiles, and garden waste should be sent to landfill,’ it said.
The Government is legally obliged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050.
Lord Deben, one of the report’s authors, said: ‘We need to have much more mixed farming, not just monocultures.’
Beef cattle have a role to play in fertilizing soil through their manure, he added, but he warned against intensive farming.
The report was not calling for vegetarianism but for people to eat less meat, he said.
Children in London have an average 5 percent lower lung capacity than expected because of diesel fumes, tests by researchers in the city show.
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Do those clowns at CCC actually believe that CO2 is a magic control knob for global warming?
The skeptics should be suing the Alarmists to prove that CO2 is a pollutant and dangerous to planet earth.
Livestock have been on earth for eons but its only now according to some crack-pots their cuasing enviromental distruction if you realy listened to the idiots from CCC and of course the jerks from PETA supporting this farce Proof strict vegans have shrinking brains
Rather than less meat consumption the UK needs fewer meat heads.
Anthropological climate change is a fraud so there is no need to take any action for that reason. However, it would be good to increase woodland cover.
The UK maybe legally obligated to reduce emission, but so are other members of the European Union most of whom will be missing their goals.
“Children in London have an average 5 percent lower lung capacity than expected because of diesel fumes” probably comes from one of these high flawed peer review studies. True or not, diesel fumes, which is pollution, is very different from carbon dioxide, which is not.