Transboundary Climate Risk Adaptation

This policy brief examines transboundary climate risks, using the 2007-8 global food price crisis to illustrate how interdependent national responses to climate impacts and the far-reaching effects of such impacts can exacerbate global damage and disruption.

• The global food price crisis of 2007-8, which led to severe social and political unrest, was caused by multiple factors including unusual weather-linked poor harvests and the effects of national response measures like commodity hoarding and export bans intended to protect domestic markets.
• Two primary lessons emerge from the 2007-8 crisis: first, the way interdependent countries respond to anticipated risks and climate impacts can be as critical as the initial impacts in determining the extent of disruption; second, climate impacts can influence systems distant from the original source.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Transboundary Climate Risk Adaptation. https://www.sei.org/publications/transboundary-climate-risk-adaptation/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Transboundary Climate Risk Adaptation. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/transboundary-climate-risk-adaptation/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021transboundary, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Transboundary Climate Risk Adaptation}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = may, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/transboundary-climate-risk-adaptation/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }