World Must Protect Land to Avoid Climate Disaster, New UN Report Warns

Averting catastrophic warming requires rapid, global changes to land use and food production, the assessment says.

Unsustainable land use and greenhouse gas emissions are delivering a one-two punch to natural ecosystems that are key to the fight against global climate change.  And without sweeping emissions cuts and transformations to food production and land management, the world stands no chance of staving off catastrophic planetary warming. 

That’s according to a dire new United Nations assessment of the complex relationship between terrestrial landscapes and climate change.  The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, the leading U.N. body of researchers studying human-caused global warming, warns that the unfolding crisis poses a serious threat global food security.

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