Experts say Africa is one of the regions worst affected by climate change, with devastating droughts and flooding, although its citizens have had barely any impact on global warming compared to Western nations.
CHANGING HABITS
Avoiding air travel, consuming less meat and improving insulation of homes are all changes that can help protect the environment.
According to a report published by Norway’s environment agency on Friday, the country could reduce an equivalent of 4.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions between 2024 and 2030 if its population of 5.5 million followed nutrition guidance by health authorities.
That guidance would see the biggest meat eaters reduce their intake to under 500g of red meat per week.
But Kerry was not about to make an appeal for people to give up their hamburgers.
“I think that those choices are up to people on their own, what they want to do, how they want to do it,” he said.
“What I would recommend is that we change our practices of how we feed livestock and what we feed them and how we use farming,” he said referring to new technologies in farming that reduce the negative impacts to the environment.
The former secretary of state under Barack Obama, who lost the 2004 presidential election to George W Bush, rejected the notion of prescribed, top-down changes to everyday life as a solution to the world’s challenges.
“I don’t think you have to ask for a sacrifice of lifestyle in order to accomplish what we need to do,” Kerry said.
“I think you can have a better lifestyle, and you can eat better food and we can feed more people if we stop wasting as much food as we waste.”
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