600M More People Face Risk of Hunger Due to Climate Change

When it comes to recruitment, 43% of businesses looking for new staff with knowledge of climate change believe that graduate applicants are prepared on the issue, although almost two-thirds (59%) of businesses say they do not require new recruits to have any knowledge or understanding of the subject. However, normal climactic changes present themselves over thousands of years – not over decades.

She stressed that the ones who have contributed the least to global warming were the ones who will suffer the most from its harmful effects. Hey, incidentally, while China’s concern over climate change has been dropping like a stone, the rate of increase of their carbon emissions has far outpaced global forecasts. There, they will be under pressure to come up with a binding set of credible commitments to slow the pace of global climate change.

“All that’s unusual is not because of climate change”, says Martin Hoerling, a scientist in NOAA’s Earth System Research Lab and an editor of the report.

While 45% of Americans described climate change as a very serious issue, only 20% of Republicans agreed, compared with 68% of Democrats.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) “climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter”. The margin of error is 2-8 to 4.3 percent.

That should translate to more emissions, but that’s where it gets confusing.

“It is critical that countries from South Asia and Africa send their best people and negotiate hard on climate change”, CSE Director General Sunita Narain said while speaking to a group of journalists at its annual media briefing on climate change. Commenting on the report’s findings, the Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Christiana Figueres said, “Fully implemented these plans together make a significant dent in the growth of greenhouse gas emissions: as a floor they provide a foundation upon which ever higher ambition can be built”.

In Canada, which in October elected a left-of-center Liberal government, there are similar partisan differences over climate change.

The most striking characteristic is that more and more countries are taking steps to limit and reduce their carbon pollution. Just 18 percent of Chinese respondents cited climate change as a very serious problem. The organization considers that climate change represents a serious and distinct threat to food security and might expose an additional 600 million people worldwide to malnutrition by the year 2080 if preemptive measures are not taken to address the issue.

What should be reassuring ahead of the Paris climate talks is that, with the exception of Pakistan, all Asian states surveyed in the new Pew dataset have majorities supporting government action on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.