New risk horizons: Sweden’s exposure to climate risk via international trade
Learn about Sweden's place in the global trade system in this SEI report. The study applies innovative multi-method approaches to identify and assess transboundary climate risks facing Sweden via its international trade links.
Impacts of climate change on global food trade networks
Learn about the potential cross-border impacts of climate change on global food trade, through the lens of three crops: wheat, rice and maize. Using a simple network model, this journal article projects changes to trade communities and network structures, as well as the effects that this will have on global food security.
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International Trade Mechanisms and Climate Change Adaptation: Exploring the Links to Labour Migration in Vietnam
Learn about the connections between international trade mechanisms and climate change adaptation through a case study on Vietnam's Mekong Delta, focusing on internal domestic labour migration.
The Geopolitics of Food Security
This paper seeks to give geopolitics a more prominent place in the food security debate, outlining its impact across a range of areas that directly affect food security.
Enhancing resilience within global value chains: the implications of COVID-19 for climate change adaptation and mitigation policies
This blog discusses the implications of the COVID-19 crisis in relation to trade within global value chains (GVCs) given the looming climate change crisis.
The Transboundary Risks of Climate Change
Why the UK Foreign Office’s international science and innovation division will be working closely with ODI, SEI and IDDRI to bring transboundary climate risk to the forefront ahead of COP26 and beyond.
Climate-Resilient Trade and Production
This invite-only online seminar explores how European member states, European businesses and the EU as a whole can usher in a new era of climate-resilient systems.
Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains
This research assesses the types of supply chain information that are needed to support improvements in sustainability governance.
Webinar: Greening infrastructures on the New Silk Road
This webinar focuses on the importance of adopting sustainable infrastructure along the New Silk Road and highlights the linkage between infrastructure, the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
LEDS in Practice: Gain the competitive edge
This publication looks at how low emission industrial development and resource efficiency offer excellent opportunities for increasing competitiveness of economies and companies.
Adaptation Without Borders
Climate change – and adaptation to it – will occur in a globalized, hyper-connected world.
Reducing vulnerability to food price shocks in a changing climate
This brief explores the impacts of food price shocks in a changing climate.
Costs of sea-level rise in Egypt
Controlling flooding at the source of the Nile. Photo: UNESCO-IHE
Initiated by the Development Co-operation and the Environment Directorates in 2002, this joint...
