Hello, it’s Energy and environment, social and governance (ESG) editor Sharon Kimathi here, filling in for Ross Kerber.
Usually, I focus on the immediate impacts of climate change on our lives, filling in my Sustainable Switch readers on topics ranging from rising temperatures, droughts and worsening wildfires to earthquakes and floods.
For this newsletter, I focus on how climate events affect food supply chains. Global forecasters say an El Niño weather pattern is strengthening, which poses a risk to crops around the world.
The El Niño phenomenon, caused by unusually warm waters in the Pacific Ocean, naturally occurs every two to seven years. It can cause more rainfall in certain areas or drought in others, which has a real impact on businesses, communities, and people's lives.
This El Niño has been forcing businesses and companies around the world to review their resilience and risk planning for factories, supply chains or general operations
'Climate can no longer be treated as an external variable'
Global forecasters say an El Niño weather pattern is strengthening and could develop into a "very strong" event that boosts temperatures, disrupts rainfall and poses risks to crops the world over
I spoke to Felippe Reis, global geo-analytics and Earth-observation company crop analyst at EarthDaily, who shared his thoughts on the areas around the world he saw being the most affected and what this means for crops.
“Overall, Australia and southern Brazil are currently the areas where we see some of the clearest emerging risks associated with the developing El Niño pattern, although for opposite reasons: increasing dryness in Australia and excessive rainfall in Brazil’s wheat belt,” said Reis.
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