Assessment on prioritizing transboundary climate risks for Ireland
This report has identified and assessed the most severe transboundary climate risks facing the island of Ireland under three pre-defined categories: agriculture and food security, infrastructure and trade and biophysical systems and ecosystem services. It is clear from this brief scoping exercise that these risks - and others - will not occur in isolation; they can be expected to occur simultaneously as climate change unfolds throughout the world. Climate change impacts cannot be contained within sectoral or national borders. As such, the island of Ireland's true exposure is to a series of inter-related, interacting, compounding and cascading cross-border risks, driven by climate change and other socioeconomic dynamics.
The recommendations in the opening section of this report are intended to illuminate the first steps in a resilience-building process on the island of Ireland that explicitly recognises the interdependence between these jurisdictions and the rest of the world. This report aims to be a useful guide as that journey begins.
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