To Secure a Livable Future for All, We Need Climate Justice Now, UN Report Finds NBCLX
in North America, like wheat, corn and soybeans. She and her team examined agricultural declines, which date back to 1961 and are now definitively linked to climate change. The impacts also extend to water, damaging or destroying fisheries and aquaculture. Without action, those trends will worsen, causing malnutrition among vulnerable communities as food becomes more scarce and more expensive.
. Depression, anxiety and PTSD are on the rise, linked to everything from disasters and evacuations to food insecurity and general worry. Canadian researcher Sherilee Harper, Ph.D., predicts these problems will intensify over the next two decades as global warming advances. IPCC authors wrote about a broad range of concerns: the decreasing ability of people to work outdoors, the expansion of disease-carrying mosquitos, mass deaths during heat waves and extreme weather. Among all the risks, the experts highlighted the heightened danger to vulnerable populations, echoing a call for climate justice.
Airlines emit the same amount of carbon as the German and Dutch economies combined. But it will take more than just making the world’s airline fleets more fuel efficient to reverse the industry’s impact on climate change. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker takes a look at how industry innovators are hoping to make air travel greener and more efficient — and how you can reduce your own carbon footprint in the sky.
“Our assessment clearly shows that tackling all these different challenges involves everyone — governments, the private sector, civil society — working together to prioritize risk reduction, as well as equity and justice, in decision-making and investment,” said IPCC co-chair Roberts.