The Times
Our Director, Laurie Laybourn, was quoted in the article ‘No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices’ by The Times. The piece covered the UK government’s veto on the release of the “global ecosystem assessment” report, which examined the ramifications of global ecosystem collapse - in places such as the Amazon and boreal forests - on UK citizens, with impacts including mass migration and food inflation.
His comments are below:
“In a globalised world, what happens to nature abroad doesn’t stay abroad…Recent events show this, like how extreme weather has smashed up crops around the world, driving up food prices in British supermarkets…As climate change and nature loss get worse, ecosystems could even collapse. This would threaten our security, including food supply, in a way unseen outside wartime.”
