IPCC Report published – Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently published the second of three major reports.  The report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability warns of the perils of inaction and calls for urgent action to avoid increasing loss of life, biodiversity and infrastructure.  The report does not focus on any particular sector but there are some specific findings that are relevant for food security and agricultural production.  It also highlights that people and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit by the effects of warming, such as extreme weather events.  Global Dairy Platform (GDP) have developed a brief analysis of the report for its membership which can be accessed here.   Alternatively download the full IPCC report here.

Another IPCC Report will be released shortly entitled Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change which will include analysis of sustainable consumption and production as well as a chapter specifically on agriculture.