The Paris Agreement and agriculture in Grenada
The Paris Agreement was adopted by 196 Parties on 12 December 2015 and entered into force on 4 November 2016 - so this is the 5th anniversary of the Agreement. The Agreement aims to limit the increase in global average temperatures to well below 2°C, preferably to less than 1.5°C. The Agreement also recognises • safeguarding food security and ending hunger • vulnerabilities of food production systems and protecting food production. Grenada signed on the Paris Agreement in April 2016. Grenada’s food security, including fruit and vegetable production, will be affected by projected future climate change. According to a 2018 report by an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if temperatures rise to 1.5°C, 122 million additional people could experience extreme poverty by 2030 mainly due to higher food prices and declining health. So, keeping rises in temperature below 1.5°C, should see fewer climate extremes which is good news for farmers in the tropics,...