Emissions set to soar as love of steak takes off in Asia

JAKARTA: Climate change is the last thing on Maya Puspita Sari’s mind as she tucks into a steak and splurges on ice cream, products that were once a luxury but are now a growing staple in the diets of millions of Indonesians.

But the livestock sector is a major contributor to climate change—accounting for 14.5 percent of the total global amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization—more than those produced from powering all the world’s road vehicles, trains, ships and planes combined.