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Report on “Climate Change and Land”
December 27 , 2022
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- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) released a Special report on Climate Change and Land.
- Human use directly affects more than 70% (likely 69–76%) of the global, ice-free land surface.
- The current intensive agriculture system has led to soil degradation and constant losses.
- There may not be enough soil to feed the world in next 50 years.
- Since the outbreak of the Second World War, we have recorded atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rising to 1.3 parts per million per year.
- This is four times faster than in the previous 100 years and 400 times faster than in the last 5,000 years.
- Despite our increasing knowledge about the environmental impact of our food, global meat consumption increased by 58% between 1998 and 2018.
- Vegetable oil consumption registered an approximately 30% increase since 2013.
- Rice consumption worldwide increase of 17% since 2008, and wheat recorded a 6% rise.
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