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Climate change is an ongoing threat to human health and the environment, including food and water sources around the world, and the world is running out of time to change course.assessed in a new report From the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), with the expertise of leading scientists.
Lewis Ziska, associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, was a member of the reviewers task force that contributed to this paper. As an expert on food stability and availability, Ziska contributed to chapters focusing on diet-related mortality.
“Climate change is a threat multiplier when it comes to food security, with the most vulnerable segments of the global population – young and old – at particular risk in terms of availability, nutritional quality and food safety,” Ziska noted.
