Climate Change and You: Food Price Shocks
Live MintDear Reader, Earlier this month, I travelled for a few days in Nashik, India’s grape and wine capital. The news in brief -The ways climate change impacts the lives of people can be very different, but in 2024, these impacts were everywhere, from polling agents dying of heatstroke during the Lok Sabha elections to hundreds killed in landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad during the monsoon, writes Bibek Bhattacharya in this detailed review of the year gone by. The report estimates that the unaccounted-for costs of current approaches to economic activity – reflecting impacts on biodiversity, water, health, and climate change, including from food production – are at least $10-25 trillion per year. Know Your Jargon Blue Carbon Mangroves sequester carbon at rates faster than terrestrial forests Carbon dioxide captured by earth’s coastal and marine ecosystems is known asblue carbon. Marine ecosystems like salt marshes, mangroves and sea grasses are smaller when compared to the size of tropical forests but they sequester carbon at a much faster rate and help keep global warming in check.
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