https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/climate/plant-based-treaty-climate.html By Cara Buckley , The New York Times.  Excerpt: Amsterdam ... Los Angeles ...are signatories to the  Plant Based Treaty,  which was launched in 2021 with the aim of calling attention to the role played by greenhouse gases that are generated by food production. ...Anita Krajnc ...and other activists modeled the Plant Based Treaty after the  Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty , which calls on governments to stop new oil, gas and coal projects. ...The first municipality to sign on was Boynton Beach, Fla., in September 2021.... Twenty-five other municipalities have since joined, including Los Angeles, Amsterdam and more than a dozen cities in India. ...Globally, food systems make up a third of planet-heating greenhouse gasses, with the environmental toll of the meat and dairy industries being particularly high. Livestock accounts for  about a third  of methane emissions, which have 80 ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/meat-dairy-rice-high-methane-food-production-bust-climate-target-study By Damian Carrington , The Guardian.  Excerpt: ...Climate-heating emissions from food production, dominated by meat, dairy and rice, will by themselves break the key international target of 1.5C if left unchecked, a detailed study has shown. ...the scientists said the temperature rise could be cut by 55% by cutting meat consumption in rich countries to medically recommended levels, reducing emissions from livestock and their manure, and using renewable energy in the food system. ...The research,  published in the journal Nature Climate Change , treated each greenhouse gas separately for 94 key types of food, enabling their impact on climate over time to be better understood. Feeding this emissions data into a widely used climate model showed that the continuation of today’s food production would lead to a rise of 0.7C by 2100 if global population growth wa...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/26/usda-diet-guide-myplate-climate-crisis By  Marina Bolotnikova , The Guardian.  Excerpt: US government’s 2020-2025 guidance is meat- and dairy-heavy. Experts say that isn’t sustainable. ,...Every five years, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly publish a new version of the  guidelines . They form the basis for the public-facing eating guide  MyPlate , formerly  MyPyramid , as well as many government-backed meal programs, such as National School Lunch. Historically, these guidelines have narrowly focused on human nutrition, but some are now saying they should be expanded to incorporate climate considerations as well. ...The current, 150-page edition for 2020-2025 doesn’t mention food’s role in the climate crisis at all. Climate groups say this is an abdication of responsibility, with Americans feeling the effects of a warming planet more than ever. ...A sustai...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/02/01/global-elimination-of-meat-production-could-save-the-planet/ By  Robert Sanders , UC Berkeley News.  Excerpt: A new study of the climate impacts of raising animals for food concludes that phasing out all animal agriculture has the potential to substantially alter the trajectory of global warming. The work is a collaboration between  Michael Eisen , professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and  Patrick Brown , professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford University and the CEO of  Impossible Foods Inc. , a company that sells plant-based meat substitutes. ... Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO 2  emissions  ( PLOS Climate ).…

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/business/macron-france-climate-bill.html Source: By  Liz Alderman  and  Constant Méheut , The New York Times.  Excerpt: ...As President Emmanuel Macron moves to make France a global champion in the fight against climate change, a  wide-ranging environmental bill  passed by the French National Assembly this month promises to change the way the French live, work and consume. It would require more vegetarian meals at state-funded canteens, block expansion of France’s airports and curb wasteful plastics packaging. Polluters could be found guilty of “ecocide,” a new offense carrying jail terms of up to 10 years for destroying the environment. If Mr. Macron gets his way, the fight against climate change would even be enshrined in the French constitution through a referendum. But those lofty ambitions are running into a barrage of resistance. Environmentalists and politicians from France’s Green party, rather than backing the leg...