What's food got to do with it?: Experts hope delegates at COP26 will be more environmentally conscious about what they eat and drink at this year's conference in Glasgow

Abstract

WHEN DELEGATES AT COP26 sit down to eat, they'd better choose carefully. Back in Poland in 2018, some 30,000 attendees munched their way through a meat- and dairy-laden menu. Every plate of fried beef, pork and burgers consumed in Katowice at COP24 helped contribute several thousand tonnes of greenhouse gases over the 12-day conference, campaigners say