Climate Change - Issues
Climate change poses a devastating threat to the future of our planet. It could bring water and food shortages to millions of people and put plants and animals under threat of extinction.
Scientific research indicates that, because of climate change, we may experience more intense and more frequent extreme weather events. A gradual increase in temperature also has major implications for ecosystems, growing seasons, animals and their habitats.
Some changes to the climate are inevitable – even if we stop emitting gases now, the gases we have already released will have an effect. However, we must do everything we can to avoid further changes and to adapt to the new situation we find ourselves in.
Issues
Some of the issues we need to look at are: