Indeed the second Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report published this year found that climate change was already impacting global society in a number of different ways, including decreasing agricultural output, acidifying the oceans, worsening extreme weather, and even exacerbating the risk of
civil conflicts.
The report, which is the second installment of a three - part series of scientific updates from the U.N. Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sharply warns that climate change poses the greatest risks to the most vulnerable populations within all nations, and a potentially existential risk to poorer countries already struggling with food insecurity and
civil conflict, as well as low - lying small island states.