Adaptation Without Borders

A briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute arguing that climate adaptation should be reframed as a global shared responsibility rather than a local challenge, specifically to address transboundary and cascading climate risks.

• The document challenges the prevailing climate policy narrative that views adaptation as a local issue and mitigation as a global one, arguing instead that adaptation must be a shared responsibility because climate risk is a shared reality.
• Climate change impacts create transboundary and cascading climate risks where local effects have regional or global repercussions. These risks are expected to grow as global warming accelerates, yet they currently constitute a significant 'blind spot' in adaptation strategies.
• Failure to recognize transboundary risks leads to an underestimation of the necessary global adaptation efforts. However, identifying the shared benefits of systemic resilience could encourage increased investment from private actors, banks, and donors in adaptation alongside mitigation.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2022). Adaptation Without Borders. https://www.sei.org/publications/adaptation-without-borders-brief-cop27/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Adaptation Without Borders. 2022. https://www.sei.org/publications/adaptation-without-borders-brief-cop27/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2022adaptation, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Adaptation Without Borders}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = dec, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/adaptation-without-borders-brief-cop27/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }