The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, is burning at an unprecedented rate, with politicians and environmental groups blaming each other. Brazil’s Amazon has been described as the lungs of the planet and is vital in helping slow down the pace of global warming. The policies of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsanaro are being blamed, but he says environmental groups are behind the fires.
The world needs to change its diet, revise its farming practices, and stop wasting food if we want to avoid catastrophic levels of climate change. That is the urgent message from the UN Inter-governmental panel on Climate change. But as Sarah Morice reports, the panel stopped short of calling on people to become vegetarian or vegan.
