It’s 🇺🇳 International #Biodiversity Day! Did you know: • 3/4 of the land-based environment and about 2/3 of the marine environment have been significantly altered by human actions. • 1m animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. ow.ly/Jn0j30qIro3

“The EU’s farm to fork strategy would cut pesticide use, boost organic farming and halve the use of antibiotics on farm animals by 2030, as well as improving farming practices to reduce CO2 emissions. Fridays for Future wants the EU to go further.” ow.ly/OC5q30qIqyP

What do you guys think? Is #ecolabelling on food a good idea? Would it influence your purchasing decisions? ow.ly/BqRH30qIqKo

#GWP*, a relatively new metric for combining GHGs, is often used by the livestock industry to argue for the status quo. This editorial, and accompanying FCRN report, by one of the metric’s developers is an important read. ow.ly/k6U030qIqGb

New Netherlands 🇳🇱 study finds that a 15-30% meat tax or 10% fruit&veg subsidy could result in reduced healthcare costs, increased quality of life, and higher productivity. Benefits to the environment of a 30% meat tax are an estimated €6300 million. ow.ly/uhH430qIqO1

Need any more evidence that intensive dairy is under-regulated, out of control and vandalising the environment? Look no further than the Mackenzie Basin - arid, fragile, iconic.. And about to be home to the biggest dairy farm in Australasia #TooManyCows stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/…

“The growth of giant dairy companies has helped force milk prices below the cost of production for the last decade, causing a crisis in rural livelihoods and requiring taxpayer subsidies to keep farmers afloat.” ow.ly/xDbB30qQ5cf

“As health professionals take action, civil disobedient action included, they’re communicating very clearly about the co-benefits of climate action for health and health equity.” Alex Macmillan in a new The Lancet Planetary Health feature ow.ly/ZW4e30qQZYz

Climate crisis poses serious risks for pregnancy, investigation finds theguardian.com/environment/20…

BREAKING: New scientific paper published in a Nature journal by Julia Steinberger et. al confirms that the Super-Rich are literally consuming the planet to death: capitalism and its drive for endless growth is the biggest driver of environmental damage nature.com/articles/s4146…

Why you should go animal-free: 18 arguments for eating meat debunked ow.ly/GecB30qRCVo

Recommend listening to this 1-hour episode feat. Greta Thunberg- entertaining account of her experience at the UN Climate Action summit in NYC and of driving across the US and Canada in 2019

“Academics have done an excellent job in communicating climate science, but the same cannot be said in relation to reducing emissions. Here we have collectively denied the necessary scale of mitigation, running scared of calling for fundamental changes...” ow.ly/6AuA30qTKNX

“Any refusal to undertake a radical revision of the public health response to environmental crisis that centralizes Indigenous worldviews and knowledges is to perpetuate colonization, leading us further down the pathway toward ecological collapse.”

Check out this new Environmental Health Perspectives news piece about our NZ research, with comment from Walter Willett, renowned professor and cochair of the EAT-Lancet Commission. ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EH…

A nice summary of the policy implications of the #GWP* metric and issues surrounding ‘#grandfathering’— a climate policy concept where those most responsible for historical emissions are granted higher entitlements to future emissions. ow.ly/DqOZ30rcJBZ

@G_stordalen The new Danish dietary guidelines look like this: "Climate" mentioned 44 times vs 2 previously. "Plant-rich" 14 times, vs 0 previously. Eat more plants (esp green, red/orange), nuts & legumes; weekly rec. meat consumption reduced to 350g, from 500g. dr.dk/nyheder/viden/…

Our new paper on the cost and greenhouse gas emissions of current, healthy, flexitarian and vegan diets in New Zealand - Negative relationship between cost and climate impact across diets and a positive relationship within diets nutrition.bmj.com/content/bmjnph…

Our review of environmental impacts associated with #surgical and #anesthetic care has just been published in Environmental Health Perspectives. Here's what we found — a thread 🧵 ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EH…