Climate Change May Double the Risk of Breadbasket Failures

摘要

Climate change will double the risk of simultaneous crop failures across the world’s top-producing regions, risking asurge in food prices.Extreme weather will see the chances of a multi-breadbasket crop rout occurring at least once within a decade riseto 18% by 2030, up from 10% today, according to analysis published by McKinsey Global Institute, which quantifiedthe changing probability of harvest failures.