Cascading Climate Risks

The European Union lacks the preparation to manage cascading climate risks, where hazards in remote locations create knock-on effects that impact European societies and economies. The report emphasizes that with accelerating climate hazards over the next 10 to 15 years and insufficient adaptation, these impacts are inevitable. It proposes 21 strategic recommendations to move from individual understanding to systemic transformation, urging the EU to adopt a proactive rather than reactive approach to risk and resilience thinking.

• The European Union is currently unprepared to manage cascading climate risks, which occur when climate hazards in remote areas create knock-on effects that cross borders and systems to affect European economies and societies.
• Escalating cascading climate impacts are inevitable because climate hazards are expected to accelerate within the next 10 to 15 years while current adaptation efforts are inadequate.
• The report provides 21 strategic recommendations designed to integrate the consideration of cascading climate risks into policies and processes, spanning individual, institutional, and systemic levels.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Cascading Climate Risks. https://www.sei.org/publications/cascading-climate-risks/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Cascading Climate Risks. 2023. https://www.sei.org/publications/cascading-climate-risks/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023cascading, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Cascading Climate Risks}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = nov, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/cascading-climate-risks/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }