Climate Change Risk Assessment 2021

Chatham House report here. Excerpt - “Cascading climate impacts can be expected to cause higher mortality rates,drive political instability and greater national insecurity, and fuel regional and international conflict. During an expert elicitation exercise conducted as part of the research for this paper, the cascading risks that participants identified greatest concern over were the interconnections between shifting weather patterns, resulting in changes to ecosystems and the rise of pests and diseases. Combined with heatwaves and drought, these impacts will likely drive unprecedented crop failure, food insecurity and migration. In turn, all will likely result in increased infectious diseases, and a negative feedback loop compounding each impact.”