Extreme weather events like fires, floods, heat waves and droughts pose an increasing risk to Canada’s food supply chain, putting pressure on prices all the way to the grocery store shelf, say experts.
Regulators around the world are increasingly forcing them to disclose their carbon emissions, along with other key climate change considerations such as how much financial risk they face.
Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Conversations with farmers in hot and wildfire and flooded areas of B.C. or Fiona-battered, wildfire and flooded areas in Nova Scotia are sprinkled with exclamations of “So much loss!” But even Ontario farmers should prepare for wonky weather.
Scientists warn the world is on track for 2.7 C of heating with current action plans and this would mean two billion people experiencing average annual temperatures above 29 C by 2030, a level at which very few communities have lived in the past.
Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catches farmers by surprise, a new study found.