At the same time, these same food systems are (by some estimates) the leading emitting sector of climate change causing greenhouse gasses – more than all land, sea and air transport combined.
The Government has identified urgent tasks, including the updates on country's contribution into the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) (as specified in NDC Action Plan) to inform global assessments, development of a National Adaptation Plan for agriculture sector, assessment of climate change vulnerability, risks, losses and damages as well as adaptation needs.
Furthermore, some studies have focused on the vulnerability of particular sectors to climate and socio-economic change (Villagrán de León 2006), but few explicitly address cross-sectoral interactions.
The second half of the table shows the total number of experiments in each sector in either less or more developed regions, to explore the association between the sector of urban climate change experimentation and different levels of development.
In the agriculture, food, and beverage sector, the impacts of climate change have the potential to alter growing conditions and seasons, increase pests and disease, and decrease crop yields.
Guerrero's areas of interest are natural resources and environmental economics, integrated water management (IWM), economic instruments applied to natural resources, water price and its reforms, applied economics, environmental economic valuation, micro-econometrics, climate change in water sector and economics of climate change.
Emilie Prattico, Ph.D., is director of development at We Mean Business, a coalition of non-profits working to mobilize the private sector in favor of climate action.
Under the Leap Co, Suzanne leads an impact investment fund, to invest in impact businesses in the Caribbean, in the sectors of sustainable energy, climate resilience and sustainable production.
CO2 equivalent gas emissions of vehicles are expected to increase in the coming years and, consequently, the contribution of the transport sector to climate change will also increase.
The contribution of the forest sector to climate change mitigation results from different and partly competing options, such as increasing the forest sink or maximizing the energy or material substitution by wood products [6-9].
