FAO warns of catastrophic food impacts from climate change; Tiny flight tax could protect billions of people
Apr 1st, 2011 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Potentially catastrophic impacts on food production from slow-onset climate changes are expected to increasingly hit the developing world in the future and action is needed now to prepare for those anticipated impacts, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned Thursday in a submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Meanwhile, A small tax on international airline tickets could raise US$10bn a year to help people to adapt to the impacts of climate change, say economists at the International Institute for Environment and Development.