Scientists criticise UN agency’s failure to withdraw livestock emissions report

Academics say there has been no serious response from FAO to their complaints of serious distortions' in report

More than 20 scientific experts have written to the UN's food agency expressing shock at its failure to revise or withdraw a livestock emissions report that two of its cited academics have said contained multiple and egregious errors".

The alleged inaccuracies are understood to have downplayed the potential of dietary change to reduce agricultural greenhouse gases, which make up about a quarter of total anthropogenic emissions and mostly derive from livestock.