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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Leah Douglas

Food, farming and forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, U.N. says

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows part of Europe's last ancient forest, the Bialowieza Primeval Forest July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Peter Andrews/File Photo

Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations' climate panel.

But the changes are unlikely to happen unless governments act to spur them along, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released on Monday found.

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