Table 5.

Media coverage of the SRCCL, on 8 August 2019

Source	Headline	Text after headline
Reuters	U.N. flags need to cut meat to curb land use impact on global warming	Global meat consumption must fall to curb global warming, reduce growing strains on land and water and improve food security, health and biodiversity, a United Nations report on the effects of climate change concluded.
Associated Press	UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future	Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth's land and the way people use the land is making global warming worse, a new United Nations scientific report says.
Agence France Presse	Land use overhaul vital for food and climate security: UN	The world must overhaul how it feeds itself and manages Earth's forests, pasture and resources in order to avoid food insecurity and the worst impacts of climate change, a landmark UN assessment said Thursday.
New York Times	Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns	The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself
Washington Post	Changing climate imperils global food and water supplies, new U.N. study finds	Agriculture and other land use accounts for 23 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
Los Angeles Times	Land use policy key to reining in global warming, U.N. report warns	Slashing greenhouse gas emissions from cars and power plants won’t be enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
USA Today	UN report: Climate change threatens our food supply. Here's how we can fix it	Global warming on land is happening at a rapid rate, and humans will need to change the way they eat and farm to help save the planet, a new United Nations report says.
Fox News (online)	UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future (Associated Press)	Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth's land and the way people use the land is making global warming worse, a new United Nations scientific report says.
CNN (online)	Change food production and stop abusing land, major climate report warns	Humans have damaged around a quarter of ice-free land on Earth, United Nations scientists warned in a major report Thursday, stressing that further degradation must be stopped to prevent catastrophic global warming.
Guardian	Climate crisis reducing land’s ability to sustain humanity, says IPCC	UN report finds ecosystems never before under such threat and restoration is urgent
Telegraph	People should adopt a plant-based diet to prevent climate change but British beef farmers call report 'misleading'	A new UN report has suggested people take up plant-based diets to prevent climate change.
Times	Eat less meat to save the Earth, urges UN	Cutting food waste and eating less meat will reduce climate change by saving millions of square miles of land from being degraded by farming, according to a United Nations report.
Mail	Eating less meat could help save the planet by preserving MILLIONS of miles of land from farming and cutting greenhouse gases, UN report finds	Experts from across the globe met to discuss the findings in Geneva this week
BBC	Plant-based diet can fight climate change – UN	Switching to a plant-based diet can help fight climate change, UN experts have said.