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More than 20 scientific experts have written to the UN’s food agency expressing shock at its failure to revise or withdraw a livestock emissions report that two of its cited have said contained “multiple and egregious errors”. The alleged inaccuracies are understood to have downplayed the potential of dietary change to reduce greenhouse gases, which make up about a quarter of total anthropogenic emissions and mostly derive from livestock. In the joint letter, which the Guardian has seen, the say they are dismayed that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has failed to remedy “serious distortions” identified by the academics Paul Behrens and Matthew Hayek, which the Guardian reported on earlier this year. Behrens and Hayek say a separate has received short shrift. They say a “technical dialogue” promised by the FAO never materialised, beyond an to a muted webinar where they could type questions into a question and answer box.

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More than 20 scientific experts have written to the UN’s food agency expressing shock at its failure to revise or withdraw a livestock emissions report that two of its cited academics have said contained “multiple and egregious errors”. The alleged inaccuracies are understood to have downplayed the potential of dietary change to reduce agricultural greenhouse gases, which make up about a quarter of total anthropogenic emissions and mostly derive from livestock. In the joint letter, which the Guardian has seen, the scientists say they are dismayed that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has failed to remedy “serious distortions” originally identified by the academics Paul Behrens and Matthew Hayek, which the Guardian reported on earlier this year. Behrens and Hayek say a separate complaint has received short shrift. They say a “technical dialogue” promised by the FAO never materialised, beyond an invitation to a muted webinar where they could type questions into a question and answer box.