Climate-Resilient Trade and Production

The brief examines how transboundary climate risks and globalized supply chains create vulnerabilities in Europe, drawing parallels between the disruptions caused by COVID-19 and potential climate-driven chain reactions. It aims to inform the EU Adaptation Strategy and the EU Trade Policy Review by advocating for increased resilience in global trade and production to protect food security, livelihoods, and health.

• The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the vulnerabilities of a globalized world, specifically how risks can move across national borders and sectors, leading to significant social, economic, and political impacts.
• European production and consumption are highly dependent on complex, just-in-time supply chains that are susceptible to disruption from long-term shifts, compound events, and shocks occurring in other parts of the world.
• Climate change, similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, has the potential to trigger chain reactions that endanger wider health and well-being, livelihoods, and food security, making the resilience of global production and trade systems essential.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). Climate-Resilient Trade and Production. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-resilient-trade-production-transboundary-eu

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate-Resilient Trade and Production. 2020. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-resilient-trade-production-transboundary-eu.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020climateresilient, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate-Resilient Trade and Production}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-resilient-trade-production-transboundary-eu}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }