LONDON: People should cut their consumption of meat to help combat climate change, according to Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
He told the British newspaper The Observer that people should start by having one meat-free day a week then cut back further.
The 68-year-old, who is a vegetarian, said diet change was important in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental problems associated with rearing animals.
“Give up meat for one day [a week] initially, and decrease it from there,” he said.
“In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity.”
Pachauri heads the IPCC that won the 2007 Peace Nobel along with former US vice president Al Gore.
