professorjoanna haigh, another point raised by someone who got in touch.bout the animal agriculture industry, saying it has the largest carbon footprint of any man—made activity and why isn't it being tackled? it is true that agriculture from land use activities contribute about a quarter of the current c02 emissions so quarter of the current c02 emissions so if we can do something about it it will help. and a very worthy —— is everybody ate les snead, it would help reduce c02 emissions because animal agriculture has a big impact. —— ate less meat. animal agriculture has a big impact. -- ate less meat. a big change at looking at our food, choosing plant —based products and more locally plant —based products. —based products and more locally plant -based products. exactly, we wa nt plant -based products. exactly, we want to use plant —based products for food and also for energy provision as well. using more trees, planting more plants to suck the c02 out of the atmosphere is an important angle. going back to professor chris fogwill, another question asking,

with me is professorjoanna haigh, who is co—director of the grantham institute for climate change andith you. what this expert panel is saying is that all of us in countries around the world really don't need —— do need to start taking dramatic action now. yes, it really outlines what is at sta ke yes, it really outlines what is at stake if we fail to limit the warming to1.5 stake if we fail to limit the warming to 1.5 degrees. and that is a much bigger reduction than we are currently meant to hit? yes, we are looking at projections this year we have achieved one 1 degrees above industrial level foot is quite remarkable given previous efforts. professor, the language is obviously specifically designed to send out a really serious message about the potential consequences of this. really serious message about the potential consequences of thislj think we have known for a long time that global warming is due to human made carbon dioxide that the impact of what will happen and what will happen in the future in all sorts of aspects of our lives, and we need to do something about it and how