World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE): Study on meat impact on climate

8 January 2010

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is to study the impact of meat output on climate change in the light of debate about meat's contribution to greenhouse emissions, the Paris-based body said on Thursday.

The initiative, which will be the OIE's first on an environmental issue, follows requests from its member countries to look at a question that has prompted calls to eat less meat.

Meat production is estimated to account for 18 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, and some scientists have cited lower meat consumption as a way of tackling climate change....

Source: Study on meat impact on climate

Link: Animal Health Body To Study Meat Impact On Climate
Link: OIE to probe meat-climate link
Link: The EX-Ante Carbon-Balance Tool is a web-based tool developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Link: World veterinary agency to probe meat-climate link