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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington Environment editor

‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’

A farm worker plows fields overlooking Grangemouth petrochemical and refining plant in Scotland.
A farm worker ploughs fields overlooking Grangemouth petrochemical and refining plant in Scotland. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5bn (£3.8bn) of environmental damage per hour, according to a major UN report.

Ending this harm was a key part of the global transformation of governance, economics and finance required “before collapse becomes inevitable”, the experts said.

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