LIVESTOCK AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Early day motion 229, tabled 25 November 2009 by Colin Challen (Labour). Signed by 16 members.

That this House welcomes the report from World Watch called Livestock and climate change: what if the key actors in climate change are cows, pigs and chickens?, which builds on the report published in 2006 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Livestock's Long Shadow, both of which demonstrate that breeding livestock for human consumption contributes at least 18 per cent. of global greenhouse gas emissions and probably at lot more; therefore calls upon the Government to respond to these reports and incorporate an analysis of livestock greenhouse gas emissions in its climate change policy development; further calls upon the Government to introduce pro-vegetarian policies; and calls on the Climate Change Committee to consider how to address livestock emissions in its future advice to the Government.

Signatures by party: Labour 12, Liberal Democrat 2, Conservative 1, Independent 1.