{"id":98403,"date":"2024-03-23T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=98403"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:59:12","slug":"climate-change-risk-to-price-stability-higher-average-temperatures-increase-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/economy\/climate-change-risk-to-price-stability-higher-average-temperatures-increase-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change risk to price stability: Higher average temperatures increase inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rising temperatures could drive food inflation up by 3.2 percentage points and overall inflation by 1.18 percentage points annually by 2035, according to a new study<\/a> by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the European Central Bank. The impact spans across all nations, with hot regions and summers being most affected and suggests that future warming will worsen these effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increased average temperatures could drive up annual food inflation by up to 3.2 percentage points per year and overall inflation by up to 1.18 percentage points per year by 2035, shows a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK and the European Central Bank ECB, to be published in Communications Earth & Environment. This effect persists over 12 months in rich and poor countries alike, making climate change an important economic factor for price stability. In the study, the scientists looked at how climate indices \u2013 like high temperatures, extreme rainfall etc \u2013 have impacted inflation in historical data. The study shows that the inflation response to average monthly temperature increases is non-linear: Inflation goes up when temperatures rise, and it does so most strongly in summer and in hot regions at lower latitudes, for example the global south, according to the study authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers also looked at the 2022 summer in Europe where heat and drought had a wide-spread impact on agriculture and the economy: \u201cWe estimate that the 2022 summer heat extreme increased food inflation in Europe by about 0.6 percentage points. Future warming projected for 2035 would amplify the impacts of such extremes by up to 50 percent,\u201d explains Maximilian Kotz, PIK scientist and first author of the study. \u201cThese effects are very relevant for currency unions with a two percent inflation target such as the Euro zone, and will continue to increase with future global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n