Solving the Climate Crisis Means Tackling What We Eat.

As the latest United Nations climate change conference wrapped up in Katowice, Poland earlier this month, policy makers barely kept the Paris Accord alive. Yet the 11th-hour agreement they reached won’t be enough to face of the sobering reality of climate change.

On the menu at COP24 were meaty dumplings,
but meat was left out of the discussion.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that avoiding catastrophic climate change can only succeed if governments take immediate, ambitious action across all sectors. That means a rapid shift to renewable energy and away from fossil fuels. But even that won’t be sufficient.

A growing body of research finds that another necessary action is for high-consuming countries to reduce meat and dairy consumption and move toward plant-forward diets and food systems. If current trends continue, food production will nearly exhaust the global carbon budget for all sectors — including fossil fuels — by 2050.

Read the Medium story by Stephanie Feldstein - “Solving the Climate Crisis Means Tackling What We Eat.”

Climate change is imminent public health threat

‘The World Health Organization and a vast network of doctors and nurses calls for a climate deal to emphasize the danger to human health’

An international alliance of doctors, nurses and other health professionals concerned about the impacts of climate change is urging governments to reach a strong agreement at the ongoing United Nations' climate negotiations in Paris.

Declarations of a global medical consensus on climate change signed by 1,700 health organizations, 8,200 hospitals and health facilities and 13 million health professionals were released Saturday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

The declarations, which include the first ever "call to action" on climate change by the World Health Organization, represent a shift in public opinion that brings concern over climate change further into the mainstream, campaign organizers said.

"Climate change, and all of its dire consequences for health, should be at centre-stage, right now, whenever talk turns to the future of human civilizations. After all, that's what's at stake," said Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization.

Read the Inside Climate News story - “Medical Community Warns Climate Change Is an Imminent Public Health Threat.”

Discussing the health impacts of climate change

The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris produced a landmark agreement to slow global warming.

Among the conference’s discussions, though, the health impacts of climate change have featured less prominently on the agenda than other concerns.

Yet, droughts, floods, heat waves, and air pollution related to climate change produce rippling effects that impact food production, infectious

Watch the hour-long video from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - “Climate Change: Health and Disease Threats.”

JRC predicts 3-degree Celsius rise by 2030

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report by the JRC shows that the global average temperature will rise by 3-degree-Celsius till the year 2030.

After the UNCCC (United Nations Climate Change Conference) the Joint research Centre analysed all the included 155 countries’ current climate commitments, and came on the above stated report.

The Commission also said that if all the countries join hand in hand, they would unitedly be able to limit the temperature rise to 2 degree celsius, which  itself is a very large temperature rise in just a time domain of fifteen years.

Read The TeCake story - “Global temperature to rise by 3-degree-Celsius by 2030: Report on UNCCC.”

Penn pins hopes on 'last great chance' in Paris

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Actor Sean Penn sees
Paris climate talks
as "last great chance".

ollywood star Sean Penn said Sunday the upcoming climate talks in Paris were the "last great chance" to stop the planet overheating.

Penn, one of Hollywood's most socially engaged actors and directors, was in the French capital to meet Environment Minister Segolene Royal with less than a month to go until the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference begins.

"I think it's the last great hope in particular because of the way the French leadership has taken leadership in this. We can only be optimistic, there is no other choice," Penn told AFP in an interview.

Read the Newsmax story - “Sean Penn Says Paris Climate Talks 'Last Great Hope'”

2015 a big year for climate change

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015 is a big year for climate change.

Besides the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris later this year, the U.N. is scheduled to ratify its 17 proposed sustainable development goals in September — several of which aim to preserve the world's ecosystems and combat climate change.

With Mashable's sixth annual Social Good Summit just months away, and the United Nations Foundation promoting climate change as its #Action2015 theme this month, we pulled search data from Google Trends to take a closer look at interest in climate change around the world.

Study the Mashable story - “These are the countries most and least interested in climate change”.