Climate change is threatening the world's coffee supplies: what can we do? #AskGSB

Join us on this page on Tuesday 20 September, 2-3pm (BST), to debate the future of coffee, and the millions who depend on it, in the face of climate change 5.39pm BSTCoffee production provides work for more than 120 million of the world’s poorest people. Climate change, however, is a mounting threat. Rising temperatures in Central America are fuelling the growth of the devastating leaf disease known as coffee rust (pdf), leading to drops of 30% or more in coffee production in the region.5.