A much-anticipated international climate report summary out Thursday carries a critical warning for people and corporations alike: Both individual and collective action will be required in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.

The sweeping report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on land use, with an emphasis on farming, forestry, and agriculture. Examining the link between land use and global warming, the report finds the world on a collision course. As the need for zeroing-out emissions grows more critical for addressing climate change, food security and land degradation are also emerging as a major problem, one exacerbated by global warming.

Along with forestry and other land uses, agriculture accounts for 23% of global greenhouse gas…