Cascading climate risks: towards adaptive and resilient European societies
Impacts of climate change – such as droughts, floods, wildfires and sea-level rise – can have knock-on effects that cross borders and continents.
These effects can escalate through security relations, international trade, financial markets, international aid operations or migration.
Our consortium will consider the risks of cross-border and cascading climate change impacts and possible mitigation and adaptation efforts.
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A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change
Cross-border climate change impacts have received limited attention to date despite the fact that they can severely disrupt societies and livelihoods. CASCADES’ conceptual framework and accompanying nomenclature describes and analyses cross-border impacts.