Deloitte sounds alarm on climate change’s trillion-dollar toll deepening global malnutrition footprint

Deloitte warns in a new report released during the ongoing COP29 that around 730 million people — nearly 10% of the global population — are presently undernourished. Feeding the world sustainably by 2070 would require limiting global warming to below 2°C while producing 40% more calories in order to feed a projected global population of around ten billion people. 

The analysis, titled “Turning point: feeding the world sustainably,” quantifies the potential social and economic benefits of transforming global food production.