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Progress Report - August 2010

Reducing Carbon Emissions with Food

August Progress Report - Improving your understanding of climate change.

Food contributes 47% to household carbon emissions

IPCC off the hook as findings are shown to be sound.

It is possible for a country to change to 100% renewable energy in ten years. This is not the dreams of a "zealous greenie".

CERT 6: You have heard the saying "you are what you eat", but just as true is the saying "the climate is what you eat"!

Find out more... August Progress Report

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// We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly. //

David Suzuki
Academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist

The message from science is clear - we urgently need to act now to reduce global carbon emissions and help stop damaging climate change.

The evidence linking human carbon emissions to global warming is clear. We need to make deep cuts in carbon emissions in order to avoid the irreversible consequences of damaging climate change.

Those consequences become severe once temperatures have risen above 2 degrees Celsius. We must and can avoid this much warming.