Climate change growing threat to food, biodiversity - officials

AlertNet: Climate change is a major threat to the world's food supply and to biodiversity, and prompt action to deal with it is crucial, environmental experts said at the close of the World Conservation Congress. Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned that shifts in weather patterns suggest that problems for people and the environment will multiply if no action is taken on climate change. "I think climate change has resonated at every level of discussion both...

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