UN Climate Conference Features Meat (and Emissions) Heavy Menu
Non-profits say the food could emit the equivalent of burning 500,000 gallons of gasoline.
Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
“Eat less meat” has become a mantra of climate change activists, but there’s plenty of meat on the menu at the COP24.
The 22,000 delegates attending the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change this week in Katowice, Poland will attempt to hammer out specific rules to hold signatories to emissions-reducing pledges made in Paris two years ago. But three nonprofits are noting that the conference’s menu, which features more meat and dairy than plant-based options, sends an unfortunate if perhaps unintended message from a group whose focus is to slow the Earth's march toward calamity.