The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N. climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world’s richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years.
Food security and soaring oil prices are likely to overtake climate change in the priorities of the G-8 meeting starting Monday, though global warming was the theme set by the host, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
Food and global warming are interconnected, said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. “They are not competing with each other on the international agenda.”
“It is absolutely right that the food issue is receiving a lot of attention. That is a human crisis that’s out there right now,” De Boer said in a telephone interview from his office in Bonn, Germany.
Vía: Wired
Tags: climate change, Food Crisis, G8, UN, human crisis
