Leaders of the G7 wealthy nations attend a working session on Africa, Climate Change and Development at the Borgo Egnazia resort during the G7 Summit hosted by Italy, on June 13, 2024, in Savelletri.
Those discussions, which concluded Saturday, came right on the heels of the annual Bonn Climate Change Conference, which sets the foundation for the United Nations’ yearly climate gathering. In Bonn, Germany, an enduring dispute over who should provideto poor nations once again ended with little progress toward a solution, dominating the agenda so much so that dialogues on other issues
“We’re seeing, essentially, the cow in the room being ignored,” said Stephanie Feldstein, population and sustainability director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “We’re seeing these kinds of vague references to needing to shift diets, but still a refusal to call out animal agriculture as the leading cause, by far, of agricultural emissions, as well as other forms of environmental destruction in food and agriculture systems.