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‘Climateflation’ Could Push Up UK Food Prices By More Than A Third By 2050, Report Says

Britain is at risk of a worsening “climateflation” crisis amid the fallout from increasingly extreme weather that could drive up food prices by more than a third by 2050.

Sounding the alarm over the financial impact for UK households, the Autonomy Institute think tank said that climate-induced price increases for everyday food items risked pushing almost 1 million people into poverty without urgent government intervention.

Read the full article on The Guardian website

NAM Implications:
  • Time for suppliers, retailers and especially the public…
  • …to ask themselves to ask really fundamental questions re the climatisation of markets…
  • …and permissible impact on their behaviour?