19 Jul 2019 --- Climate change and rising CO2 levels could significantly reduce the availability of nutrients over the next 30 years, according to new research published in Lancet Planetary Health. The impacts of climate change and CO2 are estimated to reduce growth in global per capita nutrient availability of protein, iron, and zinc by 19.5 percent, 14.4 percent, and 14.6 percent, respectively. The effects will be felt more strongly in regions comprised of low- and middle-income countries where levels of undernutrition are generally higher, such as South Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the former Soviet Union.
