IPCC report: Water shortages and crop fa • Table.Briefings

The new IPCC report assesses the impacts and risks of climate change as well as human adaptation options. It focuses primarily on the effects for the Global South, but the report also shows significant consequences for Europe.

In southern Europe, one-third of the population could suffer from water shortages in the event of global warming of 2 degrees. At 3 degrees, this risk would double. This is what it says in the second of a total of three sub-reports of the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was presented on Monday.

IPCC report: Water shortages and crop failures threaten Europe

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