The Dual Strain on Food and Energy Systems
📍Impact of Climate Change
✅Food production and energy systems are increasingly strained by climate change, population growth, and systemic inequalities.
✅Agriculture consumes nearly 70% of global freshwater resources and contributes over 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
✅This sector’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels for irrigation, mechanisation, fertiliser production, and transportation perpetuates environmental degradation.
✅At the same time, rising temperatures and erratic weather patterns disrupt agricultural output, threatening the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people globally.
📍Geopolitical Challenges
✅Similarly, the energy sector faces geopolitical tensions, outdated infrastructure, and a slow transition away from fossil fuels.
✅Despite a $500 billion investment in renewable energy in 2022, short-term economic and geopolitical pressures have sustained high fossil fuel consumption.
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