Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices

Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people in poverty.

Briefing Paper

Published: Sep 05, 2012

Publication Summary

Climate change is making extreme weather—like droughts, floods and heat waves—much more likely. As the 2012 drought in the US shows, extreme weather means extreme food prices. Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people in poverty.

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