Daily Maverick published an article stating that the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the alarm – in no uncertain terms, again – about time running out for humanity to save the planet and ourselves from catastrophic global warming. FAO has convened a group to do a more comprehensive, income-sensitive, country-tailored analysis than the EAT-Lancet Report. “They don’t feel as if it was entirely balanced or holistic in its review of the evidence,” said senior research fellow Purnima Menon. “Let’s go further and make sure we have evidence from around the world.”
Menon affirmed that scientists in low- and middle-income countries are “more concerned about delivering nutrition than preserving the environment,” she told the journal Nature in a December 2021 article called How humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet – but the IPCC’s conclusions definitively recast the nutrition vs. environment debate as two sides of the same coin.