The EU-Mercosur trade agreement: can a trade treaty be greened?
This blog post analyzes the conditions for a "greening" of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement compatible with both the legitimate expectations of civil society and the reality of trade negotiations.
Climate impact induced crisis in Europe: an exploration of scenarios
This report examines six scenarios of climate impacts that can trigger social, political, economic or financial crises in Europe in the next decade.
Transboundary Impacts of Climate Change in Asia
This paper outlines prerequisites and needs for collective adaptation solutions to address the impacts of climate change on transboundary natural resources and other teleconnections.
Resilience and Green recovery in Europe: the critical role of the EU Adaptation Strategy
This blog post explores the features and implications of the revised EU Adaptation Strategy that will be adopted in 2021.
Changement climatique : penser les « trajectoires » de l’adaptation
This blog post shows how adaptation pathways can help us better address climate change.
Cet article montre comment une approche par les "trajectoires" d'adaptation pourrait nous permettre de faire face au changement climatique.
Globalization of local risks through international investments and businesses
This publication explores the globalization of local risks through international investments in Asia and present a climate fragility risk index to assess a country’s suitability for investing.
Cascading Climate Impacts - Policy Simulation
The Cascading Climate Impacts Policy Simulation encourages us to go beyond the linear process in which science is passed on to society after its production by offering a more interactive and productive arrangement between science and science users.
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.
Climate-resilient trade and production
This brief provides an overview of the state of knowledge on transboundary climate risks in Europe, and explores how this knowledge could help Member States, businesses and the EU as a whole to advance climate-resilient trade and production.
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.
Watch the adaptation blind spot
We know Asia’s least developed countries are highly vulnerable to the direct impacts of climate change, but they also face threats from indirect impacts, which are only now starting to be grasped.
Development implications from the Argentina-EU soy connection
The vast majority of Argentinian soy production serves foreign consumption, but has social, economic and environmental impacts in the producer country.
Towards a Global Adaptation Progress Tracker
This paper proposes to measure adaptation progress directly at the global level through the development of new indicators and using new technologies - the Global Adaptation Progress Tracker.
Inescapably intertwined: the reality of globalisation and borderless climate risks
Climate adaptation efforts are unlikely to succeed if done in geographic isolation. The Transnational Climate Impacts Index examines country exposure to climate change from an international view.
Climate adaptation must be reframed from a local issue to a global responsibility
This brief provides several recommendations on how the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) could encourage better accounting of transboundary climate risk.
Adaptation without borders? Preparing for indirect climate change impacts
A SEI project produced resources that highlight the need to look beyond national boundaries in adaptation planning, and explain how policy-makers can start identifying indirect climate risks.
Resilience building at risk? Five key insights for addressing borderless climate risks
Can borderless climate risks be addressed in the follow-up of the Paris Agreement’s global goal on adaptation?
Moving towards a growing global discourse on transboundary adaptation
This briefing note describes current adaptation plans and strategies addressing transboundary risks and highlights opportunities to enhance work on transboundary adaptation.
Transboundary Climate Risks
The Wilton Park dialogue was convened with the recognition that climate change adaptation continues to be framed and addressed primarily at the local, subnational and national levels.
Global adaptation governance: An emerging but contested domain
This review article asks: to what extent does global governance of climate change adaptation exist?
Governing borderless climate risks
This article looks at the paradoxes, challenges and opportunities in trying to govern often borderless climate risks through national or local adaptation policy.
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.
Quantifying transnational climate impact exposure
This research develops a global index of exposure to transnational climate impacts.
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