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Using a strategic foresight approach, the authors analyze four scenarios based on the uncertainty of international cooperation and port infrastructure resilience. They find that climate stressors, such as a projected global warming increase of over 2°C by 2040, threaten agricultural productivity and port operability. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by hostile actors, such as Al-Shabaab in Somalia, to weaponize food and destabilize regions. The report recommends that the US incorporate maritime food trade resilience into its National Security Strategy, invest in climate-resilient infrastructure, and revitalize flexible development assistance to prevent the erosion of soft power and protect military supply chains.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Climate change is projected to significantly reduce global food production, with some models suggesting global warming could exceed 2°C by 2040. Every 1°C increase is predicted to cause an average food production decline of 120 calories per person per day, representing a 4.4% drop in recommended daily intake.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Maritime food trade is highly dependent on a few critical chokepoints—the Suez Canal, Panama Canal, and Strait of Malacca—making the global food system vulnerable to disruptions from geopolitical conflict, extreme weather, and cyberattacks.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Food insecurity acts as a security threat amplifier; fragile states with food-insecure populations are more prone to radicalization and conflict. Hostile actors, such as Al-Shabaab in Somalia, have used food distribution to gain support or used starvation as a weapon to undermine government authority.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Disruptions to maritime chokepoints directly threaten US military operational readiness by delaying the delivery of fuel and food to bases abroad and impeding access to materials needed for weaponry and communication systems.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The report identifies two critical uncertainties driving risks for food trade chokepoints through 2040: the level of international cooperation on food trade and the resilience of port infrastructure.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Panama Canal is a vital artery for US trade, with over 40% of US container traffic passing through it. Climate-driven droughts in Gatún Lake lead to transit restrictions and operational slowdowns, increasing global food and commodity price volatility.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Strait of Malacca is a critical conduit for fertilizer production and agricultural commodities, handling 43% of such goods. It is prone to congestion and is expected to exceed its capacity by the end of the decade.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Suez Canal handles approximately 12-15% of global trade. Recent Red Sea crises have forced rerouting around the Cape of Good Hope, increasing transit times from Asia to Europe by 12 days and raising freight rates.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A reduction in US foreign aid creates a vacuum that other geopolitical actors, such as China through its Belt and Road Initiative, are filling, which erodes US soft power and weakens multinational crisis coordination.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000162#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change","agricultural productivity","food security","sea level rise","extreme weather event","climate migration","Climate-smart agriculture"],"geography_discussed":["Suez Canal","Panama Canal","Strait of Malacca","Africa","South Asia","Somalia","People's Republic of China","Egypt","Panama","Indonesia","Malaysia","Singapore"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["strategic foresight","scenario planning","risk assessment"]},{"id":"ember-000420","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/ember-000420","title":"The EV leapfrog - how emerging markets are driving a global EV boom","publisher":{"name":"Ember","organization":"ember"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2025-12-16","source_url":"https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/12/The-EV-leapfrog-PDF.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"In 2025, electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for over a quarter of global new car sales, driven by a significant shift in emerging markets. 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By 2025, 39 countries achieved an EV sales share greater than 10%, with 12 of those located outside Europe.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000420#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"China remains the dominant global EV market, on track to exceed a 50% EV sales share for the first time in 2025 and likely representing nearly two-thirds of all global EV sales.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000420#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Several emerging markets in the ASEAN region have surpassed advanced economies in EV penetration. Viet Nam and Singapore both exceeded 40% EV sales share in 2025, overtaking the UK (33%) and the EU (26%). Thailand reached a 20% share, and Indonesia reached 15%, the latter surpassing the United States.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000420#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Latin America, Uruguay has reached a 27% EV sales share, while Costa Rica has reached 17%. Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil have all achieved higher EV sales penetration than Japan, which has remained around 3% since 2022.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000420#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Strategic policies are driving adoption in emerging markets, including Ethiopia's 2024 ban on internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle imports and Nepal's 2024 EV sales share of 76%. Other measures include Türkiye's tax cuts and Indonesia's reduced VAT for vehicles meeting local content requirements.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000420#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Chinese EV exports are shifting toward non-OECD markets, with the value of these exports nearly tripling since July 2023 (an increase of $16.2bn). Top destinations in 2025 include Brazil, Mexico, the UAE, and Indonesia.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000420#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"EVs significantly lower fossil fuel reliance due to higher efficiency. 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This figure is based on assumptions including a 20-year lifetime, a 7% discount rate, 90% round-trip efficiency, an 80% utilisation rate, 2% annual degradation, and 2% annual operational costs.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000519#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The decline in LCOS to $65/MWh is attributed not only to lower equipment costs but also to performance improvements: extending battery lifetimes from 10 to 20 years reduces LCOS by $20/MWh, increasing efficiency from 85% to 90% saves $5/MWh, and reducing the cost of capital from 10% to 7% saves $10/MWh.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000519#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Combining a $65/MWh LCOS with a 2024 global average solar price of $43/MWh means that creating dispatchable solar by storing 50% of daily generation adds $33/MWh, resulting in a total cost of $76/MWh.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000519#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Real-world evidence from 2025 auctions supports the $125/kWh capex estimate: Saudi Arabian projects (Tabuk and Hail) were priced around $120/kWh, and Italy's MACSE tender also corresponds to approximately $120/kWh. Indian auctions showed prices around $120/kWh, though some were lower due to a CAPEX subsidy of 1.8 million INR/MWh.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000519#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Core equipment costs for BESS are lowest for projects with a duration of four hours or more, as components sized to power (MW) rather than energy (MWh) spread costs over more hours, making these projects 10–15% cheaper than smaller ones.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ember-000519#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["battery energy storage system","energy storage","solar energy","energy transition"],"geography_discussed":["Saudi Arabia","India","Italy","People's Republic of China","United States","Australia","Mexico","Romania","Croatia","Turkey"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["cost analysis","market assessment"]},{"id":"rmi-000057","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/rmi-000057","title":"Clean Energy 101: Renewably Powered Minigrids","publisher":{"name":"RMI","organization":"rmi"},"document_type":"fact sheet","language":"en","date_published":"2025-12-11","source_url":"https://rmi.org/resources/clean-energy-101-renewably-powered-minigrids/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document defines renewably powered minigrids (or microgrids) as systems combining renewable energy sources, battery storage, and sometimes backup generators to provide power to communities or specific facilities. 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Furthermore, the document notes that the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) provides governments with more policy space for experimentation than the rules governing manufacturing trade.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-002455#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Traditional industrial policy frameworks are outdated because they remain rooted in a manufacturing paradigm, despite services now accounting for approximately two-thirds of global GDP and the majority of employment.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-002455#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Services act as essential inputs that drive productivity across all sectors, including agriculture and manufacturing; intermediate services are estimated to be worth roughly 2.5 times the value of trade in final services.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-002455#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A successful industrial policy for services requires focusing on five enabling pillars: infrastructure (energy, broadband, transport, payments), investment and FDI, skills and human capital, regulatory quality, and physical and digital connectivity.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-002455#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"For developing nations, a services-led strategy is often more feasible than manufacturing-led models due to lower capital intensity, smaller minimum scale for competitiveness, higher employment potential, and a smaller carbon footprint.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-002455#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Governments have significantly more policy flexibility to implement industrial strategies in services than in manufacturing because the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is less restrictive than the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-002455#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["industrial policy","green growth","carbon footprint","trade policy"],"geography_discussed":["Costa Rica","Philippines","India","Mauritius","Rwanda","Chile","Egypt","Uruguay","United Arab Emirates","Africa"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis"]},{"id":"rmi-000266","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/rmi-000266","title":"Smelting Barriers: The Innovators Forging a New Future for Iron and Steel","publisher":{"name":"RMI","organization":"rmi"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2025-12-08","source_url":"https://rmi.org/resources/smelting-barriers-the-innovators-forging-a-new-future-for-iron-and-steel/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report analyzes the transition of the steel industry toward net-zero emissions, highlighting the role of emerging technologies and startups. It identifies the dominance of coal-based blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) facilities, which contribute approximately 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and examines alternatives such as Hydrogen-Direct Reduced Iron (H2-DRI) and scrap-based electric arc furnaces (EAFs). The document categorizes innovations into three pathways: reducing demand ('Make Less'), improving existing processes ('Make Better'), and developing disruptive technologies ('Make New'). It emphasizes the need for strategic investor-offtakers in high-growth markets like Asia and Africa, the potential of modular furnace technologies, and the strategy of generating early revenue through high-margin, low-volume products to derisk commercial scaling.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000266#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The global steel industry is a $1.5 trillion business producing approximately 1.8 billion metric tons annually, but it is responsible for about 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions due to a heavy reliance on coal in blast furnaces.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000266#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Integrated blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) facilities represent roughly 70 percent of global crude steel production and are highly inefficient, emitting approximately two tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of steel produced.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000266#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Hydrogen-Direct Reduced Iron (H2-DRI) is currently the only available commercial production technology capable of net-zero emissions, though high costs and limited hydrogen access have hindered its scale; Stegra is the only commercial-scale project to date resulting from multinational commitments in the US and Europe.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000266#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Global steel demand is projected to increase by 39 percent by 2050, potentially reaching 2.5 billion metric tons, with significant growth expected in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000266#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Innovation in the 'Make New' category includes low-temperature reduction systems (operating below 350°C) that can be paired with variable renewable energy, and modular furnaces that allow for decentralized production near energy sources or customers.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000266#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Startups are overcoming capital intensity and the lack of 'green premiums' by targeting high-margin, low-volume products such as high-purity iron (HPI) for medical and magnet applications to generate early revenue.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000266#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The report identifies a geographic misalignment where promising technologies are developed in the US and Europe, while the primary growth markets are in Asia and Africa, suggesting a need for investor-offtakers who can bridge these regions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000266#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["iron and steel industry","decarbonization","greenhouse gas emissions","renewable energy","green hydrogen","circular economy","Industrial decarbonization","climate finance"],"geography_discussed":["Sweden","India","People's Republic of China","United States","Australia","Brazil","Southeast Asia","Africa","Europe"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["technology assessment","market analysis","policy and finance evaluation"]},{"id":"tess-000032","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/tess-000032","title":"Opportunities for trade policy and cooperation to shift course on climate change and nature loss","publisher":{"name":"Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs","organization":"forum-on-trade-environment-the-sdgs"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":"2025-12-08","source_url":"https://tessforum.org/latest/opportunities-for-trade-policy-and-cooperation-to-shift-course-on-climate-change-and-nature-loss","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The statement asserts that the global economy is highly exposed to nature and climate risks, with potential GDP losses of $2.7 trillion annually by 2030. It identifies key opportunities for transformation, including the alignment of trade policy with the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the reform of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the elimination of environmentally harmful subsidies. The author calls for a shift from short-term crisis management to strategic, long-term sectoral pathways consistent with net-zero and nature-positive goals, suggesting the use of plurilateral agreements and initiatives like the Integrated Forum on Climate Change and Trade.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"tess-000032#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The global economy faces significant financial risks from the collapse of ecosystem services, which could lead to an annual global GDP decline of $2.7 trillion by 2030, disproportionately affecting low-income and lower-middle-income countries.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"tess-000032#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Environmentally harmful public subsidies total approximately $2.6 trillion annually, which in turn enables an estimated $5 trillion in private financing for activities that degrade ecosystems or accelerate natural resource depletion.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"tess-000032#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a strategic opportunity to reform the international trading system and the World Trade Organization (WTO) to place nature, climate, and sustainable development at the center of their priorities, building on the precedent set by the first fisheries subsidies agreement.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"tess-000032#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To achieve nature-positive and net-zero goals, the global community must transition from short-term crisis management toward strategic trade scenarios, national sectoral pathways, and innovative mechanisms such as the Integrated Forum on Climate Change and Trade launched at COP30.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"tess-000032#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["biodiversity loss","climate change","Net-zero emissions","sustainable development","Paris Agreement"],"geography_discussed":["Amazon rainforest","Belém"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy recommendation","economic assessment"]}]}