Ed Ballard
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 30 Aug
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Exactly.
So I guess the whole idea behind these negotiations is that it'll be possible to have a deliberative process for deciding whose priorities sit where in the hierarchy, which farmers and which states, which crops are the most important.
Yeah, there's certainly a lot to keep track of.
We haven't even talked about the Po River in Italy, another of Europe's great rivers that's got perilously low water levels and threatening a major agricultural producing region.
And this is a you know a risk we're going to be hearing a lot more about.
You may have heard that El Nino is back, this global weather phenomenon that's associated with both droughts and floods around the world.
India's monsoon, for example, is thirteen percent below usual.
levels and that's bad news for agricultural production.
A recent report from Bloomberg said that droughts due to El Nino can cause up to two percentage points of food price inflation in some countries, especially in Asia.
So we're just going to see more and more in the coming months how the temperatures and the weather conditions that are becoming normal, how they play out and ripple through the economy.
Of course.
And it's maybe taking the form of emergency responses.
Like in France, they promised to buy more water bombing planes of the kind they didn't have enough of when forests around Bordeaux are on fire.
Or in the UK, we've also had some wildfires.
There's been a temporary ban on disposable barbecues, but perhaps not the kind of deep, far reaching infrastructure change that would allow countries to get ahead of these risks.
It's an interesting point.
I mean, certainly the politics of climate change have changed quite a lot here in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, especially when the target we were shooting for, this stopping warming at one point five degrees, is is basically here.
It's on us.
As for whether it's going to be business, certainly what issues showing up more on earnings calls in Europe.
Nobody has a more direct incentive than the private sector.
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