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Climate change will accelerate the prevalence of pests and diseases and increase the occurrence of highly impactful events. [42] The impacts of climate change on agricultural production in Africa will have serious implications for food security and livelihoods. Between 2014 and 2018, Africa had the highest levels of food insecurity in the world ...
The scientific consensus is that global food security will change relatively little in the near-term. 720 million to 811 million people were undernourished in 2021, with around 200,000 people being at a catastrophic level of food insecurity. [12] Climate change is expected to add an additional 8 to 80 million people who are at risk of hunger by ...
The Climate Change Act 2016 establishes a National Climate Change Council, which is chaired by Kenya's president, [18]: 4 with the authority to oversee "the development, management, implementation and regulation of mechanisms to enhance climate change resilience and low carbon development for the sustainable development of Kenya", by the ...
Climate security refers to the security risks induced, directly or indirectly, by changes in climate patterns. Climate change has been identified as a severe-to-catastrophic threat to international security in the 21st century by multiple risk and security reports.
Climate change has a tremendous impact on the well-being of mankind as well as the environment. It threatens the survival of mankind while adversely affecting the rights of life, health, food, water, housing, and livelihood. Climate change can affect to life, health, housing, water and sanitation, mental health, economic now and in the future. [49]
Mandy Gunasekara, a contributor to the project, acknowledges the reality of human-made climate change, but considers it politicized and overstated. [159] On the other hand, project director Paul Dans accepts only that climate change is real, not that human activity causes it. [153]
The list of climate change controversies (or list of global warming controversies) concerns past or present public debates over certain aspects of climate change: whether it is occurring (climate change deniers dispute this), how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether action should be taken to curb it now or later, and so forth.
National climate change strategy provides "an illusion of intervention and security", but actually largely fails to identify and mitigate the underlying causes of climate change, or to lay the ground for a mid-term and long-term adaptation strategy that can truly cope with "yet unknown levels of climatic and other structural changes". [29]