According to the institute’s calculations, in high consumption regions, daily meat intake should be reduced to 79 kilocalories per person by 2030 and 60 kilocalories by 2050, which is equivalent to consuming only two meat burgers per week.
Currently, in rich countries, 79 kilocalories of red meat are consumed daily. And not only that, but emissions from meat production have gone up, not down. Additionally, 14% of food production is still lost on the way from farm to supply; and another 17% is lost at retail outlets.
But the consumption of meat would only be one of the objectives to achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement, to limit the increase in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But she’s not the only one action recommended by the WRI ( for its acronym in English).
Switch to healthier and more sustainable diets five times faster by reducing per capita consumption of ruminant meat to the equivalent of 2 hamburgers per week in Europe, America and Oceania
World Resources Institute
In fact, none of the other objectives is being carried out at the speed that is required. For this reason, the institute stated that it is necessary to expand the use of public transport six times faster, reduce the annual rate of deforestation 2.5 times more than what has been done so far.
The other indicators include the accelerated reduction in the use of fossil fuels, use of electric transport, so that annual sales represent between 75 and 95% of the automotive industry. Currently, sales of electric vehicles only represent 8.7% of the total.
But the world lags much further behind on other goals. Mainly in what refers to the use of gas derived from fossil fuels for the generation of electrical energy, the reduction of the use of coal for global steel production, reduction of automobile use, the destruction of mangroves and the reduction of global emissions of greenhouse gases from agricultural production.