Impact of climate change on ‘endemic’ plants and animals to be the hardest, study warns

Apr 14, 2021

Regions like the Mediterranean with 'high endemicity' are likely to suffer higher negative impact of climate change Image: Unsplash/Elion Jashari

Ayesha Tandon

Science Journalist, Carbon Brief

Our Impact

The Big Picture

Explore and monitor how Climate Change is affecting economies, industries and global issues

A hand holding a looking glass by a lake

Crowdsource Innovation

Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale

Stay up to date:

Climate Change

Have you read?

The projected impact of climate change on species in land-based biodiversity hotspots for (a) all species, (b) endemic species, (c) native species and (d) introduced species. The impacts are standardised across a range of dates and warming scenarios. Image: Manes et al (2021)

a map showing the projected impact of climate change on species in marine biodiversity hotspots for (a) all species, (b) endemic species and (c) native species

The projected impact of climate change on species in marine biodiversity hotspots for (a) all species, (b) endemic species and (c) native species. Image: Manes et al (2021)

a chart showing the climatic, geographic and biological impacts of climate change.

Climatic, geographic and biological impacts of climate change. The left shows the impact on all species (black), endemics (purple) non-endemics (green) and introduced species (orange) on the left hand side. The right side shows the proportion of species that will be positively impacted by climate change (purple), negatively impacted (pink) or will face an extinction risk (red). Image: Mane et al (2021)

Discover

How does the World Economic Forum encourage biological diversity?

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.