Climate change adaptation is key to avoid disruption of EU agricultural commodities imports
The analysis, based on a study commissioned by the EEA, addresses key implications for Europes agricultural trade of global climate change impacts.
- The analysis, based on a study commissioned by the EEA, addresses key implications for Europes agricultural trade of global climate change impacts.
- The study combines information on global climate change impacts on agricultural production with information on the EUs import profile and evidence on the vulnerability to climate change of the products countries of origin.
- Risks associated to climate change are being increasingly felt across all elements of the agricultural sector from production, infrastructure and trade to finance.
- Climate vulnerability of major exporting countries of six key commodities
Background
The EEA has addressed the consequences of climate change in various reports, including: