The impacts of climate change on plant health
Climate change is having an impact on ecosystems and agricultural production systems throughout the world. It influences international trade flows of plants and plant products and it will change the infectivity, severity and distribution of plant pests. Preventive, mitigation and adaptation measures are essential to limit the international spread of pests adapting to climate change.
Climate-change impacts on ecosystems, pests and vectors also threaten the international trading system, as international trade provides a pathway for pests and vectors to spread into new areas of the world. To facilitate safe international trade in plants and plant products, it is therefore imperative to strengthen national, regional and international phytosanitary capacities regarding climate change.
On this page, you will find some useful resources on how the International Plant Protection Convention works to assess and manage the devastating impacts of climate change on plant health, and the trickle-down effect on food security, international trade and the environment.
Brochures
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Webinar series
Climate change and phytosanitary measures, 24-26 September 2024
Click on the links below to view the recordings:
- Webinar 1: Climate change, plants and pests
- Webinar 2: Risk assessment
Technical resources
Data
- AQUASTAT – FAO’s global information system on water and agriculture
- Atlas of Living Australia
- CHELSA – Free climate data at high resolution
- Climate Data Guide – a climate data search engine/catalogue
- Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS) ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to present (Muñoz Sabater, J. (2019))
- E-OBS gridded dataset – climate data for Europe
- EPPO Global Database - pest-specific information from the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - free and open access to biodiversity data
- Köppen Geiger climate-change data
- Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (MACA) statistically downscaled climate-change data
- Spatial Data Science with R and “terra” - R Spatial
- WorldClim – future climate data
Tools and models
- CABI Horizon Scanning Tool
- Climatch
- CliMond - global climatologies for bioclimatic modelling
- Copernicus land monitoring service (CLMS)
- EDDMapS – Invasive Range Expanders Listing Tool
- Growing Degree Days throughout this century, in the conterminous US
- Maxent for modeling species niches and distributions
- New Zealand Climate app – Climate Matching Tool
- SCAN-Clim: a tool to support pest climate suitability analysis based on climate classification - EFSA’s ScanClim tool: EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) & Maiorano, A. 2022. EFSA Journal, 20(2): e07104.
- Spatial Analytic Framework for Advanced Risk Information Systems (SAFARIS)
Other resources
Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
Resources
- Climate-change impacts on plant pests: a technical resource to support national and regional plant protection organizations
(available in English PDF and digital formats)
- Scientific review of the impact of climate change on plant pests: A global challenge to prevent and mitigate plant-pest risks in agriculture, forestry and ecosystems
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- FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031
Related information
General resources
- ClimatchR: R package for using the CLIMATCH algorithm climatchR: An implementation of Climatch in R | U.S. Geological Survey
- Rnaturalearth: to obtain the world’s administrative regions for spatial analysis CRAN: Package rnaturalearth
- Spatstat: spatial statistics in R spatstat - spatstat website
- Rgbif: accessing GBIF using R rgbif
- For modeling using GBIF data: Biodiversity Data Use
- Simple Features for R • sf
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