In the second of his series of articles on how climate change is set to impact the cotton industry, cotton, and agriculture our correspondent Simon Ferrigno looks at data, legislation and mitigation.
We are now as little as five years away from “blowing” the carbon budget required to keep global warming from breaching 1.5C, according to a guest post on the Carbon Brief website by climate scientists Piers Forster and Debbie Rosen .
Disruption is going to increase, just as we have better attribution data, and new due diligence legislation (CSDDD). And with this increasingly precise data, could those who are severely impacted use the legislation to sue? It seems the answer is yes.
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