Cross-border climate impacts: implications for the European Union

The paper identifies that the EU's global connectivity via people, capital, and goods exposes it to climate risks originating outside its borders. It finds that many EU countries exceed global averages in exposure related to trade openness, globalization, asylum, and transboundary water dependency. To address these risks, the authors introduce a typology of cross-border impacts and highlight the need for improved supply chain modelling and the application of existing cohesion and external action mechanisms to build resilience.

• Many EU countries exhibit higher exposure to climate-related risks than the global average, specifically regarding globalization, trade openness, openness to asylum, and transboundary water dependency.
• The EU faces specific challenges in adapting to cross-border climate impacts, including the need to utilize external action and cohesion mechanisms for resilience, monitor member states for internal cross-border risks, and integrate economic and supply chain modelling into adaptation research.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2019). Cross-border climate impacts: implications for the European Union. https://www.sei.org/publications/cross-border-climate-impacts-implications-european-union/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Cross-border climate impacts: implications for the European Union. 2019. https://www.sei.org/publications/cross-border-climate-impacts-implications-european-union/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Cross-border climate impacts: implications for the European Union |date=14 January 2019 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/cross-border-climate-impacts-implications-european-union/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2019crossborder, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Cross-border climate impacts: implications for the European Union}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2019}, month = jan, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/cross-border-climate-impacts-implications-european-union/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }