Transboundary Climate Risk Adaptation

The document argues that the responses of interdependent countries to climate risks can be as impactful as the initial climate events themselves, using the 2007-8 global food price crisis as a case study to illustrate how climate impacts can trigger systemic disruptions far from their origin.

• The 2007-8 global food price crisis, which led to severe social and political unrest, was caused by a combination of poor harvests due to unusual weather and the negative effects of national response measures, including commodity hoarding and export bans intended to protect domestic markets.
• Analysis of the 2007-8 crisis reveals two primary lessons: first, that the way interdependent nations respond to anticipated risks and climate impacts can be as critical as the initial impacts in determining the extent of disruption and damage; second, climate impacts are capable of affecting systems distant from the original source of the impact.

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} }