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Author(s): Kate Abnett

Explainer: How climate change affects Europe's farmers

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At the same time, agriculture is one of the sectors worst-affected by climate change. Europe's farmers are already suffering under increasing heat, drought and flooding - the same impacts some green policies are attempting to prevent.

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Without rapid action to curb climate change, its impacts on Europe's farmers will worsen.

The IPCC has said more than a third of southern Europe's population will face water scarcity if global average temperatures rise to 2C above pre-industrial levels. The planet has already warmed by 1.2C from pre-industrial times.

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Agriculture contributes more than 10% of the EU's total greenhouse gas emissions. Those emissions have hardly decreased for two decades.

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Hazards Drought
Themes Climate change Food security and agriculture
Country and region Europe

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