The New York Times published its list of the top new food words for 2015. Words and phrases that made this year’s list range from “beer o’clock,” one’s personal assessment of the right time of day to start drinking, to “hangry,” the state of being so hungry that you become angry or irritable. But, the one word most relevant to the environmentally conscious is “climatarian.” The New York Times defines it as “a diet whose primary goal is to reverse climate change. This includes eating locally produced food (to reduce energy spent in transportation), choosing pork and poultry instead of beef and lamb (to limit gas emissions) and using every part of ingredients (apple cores, cheese rinds, etc.) to limit food waste.”

Climates is calling on meat eaters to make their New Year resolution to ‘go climatarian’ for an easy way to make a big impact on climate change and help save paradise island communities from extinction.

Today, the first truly global deal to limit climate change to below 2 degrees Celsius, with an aim of 1.5 degrees, was agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.

As the UN climate summit in Paris draws to a close it has overlooked the dramatic impact that a simple diet shift could have on developed countries’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. If everybody in the UK adopted a Climatarian diet it could cut the national GHG -or carbon equivalent - emissions by nearly 10%. In the US the GHG savings could be nearly five percent(4).

As conservation charity WWF launches its new LiveWell range of 'sustainable' meals. Edie.net notes that 'LiveWell is not the first campaign to attempt to reduce the environmental impact of people's food choices. Earlier this year Climates - a new environmental social networking site - launched its Climatarian diet which it claims can save up to a tonne of CO2 per year for each person.'

Climatarian, a diet designed to help meat eaters cut their carbon footprint, could also help tackle world hunger and achieve United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDG).