Climate crisis adds average £605 a year to UK household food bills, study finds

Prof Wyn Morgan, one of the report’s authors, said: ‘With an El Niño event now confirmed, 2024 may have even worse in store for hard-pressed shoppers Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Food bills in the UK have risen by £605 a year for the average household because of the effects of climate breakdown, according to research.

Floods and droughts, which scientists have said were probably exacerbated by global heating, have reduced crop yields over the past two years, said the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), a nonprofit organisation.