How hailstorms change with warming is not well understood. Here the authors use global projections with different hail proxies to show that hail-prone conditions shift polewards under warming, also shifting crop risk related to hail hazards.
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Shifting hail hazard under global warming and effects on crop hail risk | Nature Climate Change
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Nature & Climate Perspective
**Shifting hail hazards driven by global warming pose severe physical risks to agricultural ecosystems, directly threatening the permanence of nature-based carbon sequestration. **
- Alters localized microclimates and accelerates soil erosion, undermining the ecological baseline of agricultural and LULUCF projects.
- Damages canopy structures and vegetative resilience, reducing the biological capacity for sustained carbon capture and long-term ecosystem stability.
- Disrupts regional biodiversity corridors and crop health by increasing the frequency of high-impact extreme weather events.
Market & Policy Outlook
**Escalating crop hail risks demand a robust reassessment of risk-buffer pools to maintain ICVCM compliance and protect corporate Scope 3 supply chain commitments. **
- Challenges the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) on permanence, forcing voluntary carbon market registries to adjust buffer pool allocations for agricultural and LULUCF credits.
- Threatens corporate Scope 3 decarbonization pathways and SBTi alignment due to severe climate volatility in raw material supply chains.
- Inflates climate insurance premiums and alters carbon pricing dynamics, potentially driving financial liquidity toward technical offsets rather than nature-based solutions.
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