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This report discusses how the European Union (EU) and the EU member states, individually, collectively, and through their cooperation with international organisations, address cascading and cross-border climate impacts in agri-food systems in third countries with close ties to Europe. It also sheds light on Europe’s main strategic challenges to building system-wide resilience in the face of cross-border climate impacts and provides policy recommendations on overcoming them.

This report indicates that adapting and building resilience to cascading and cross-border climate impacts is imperative for Europe. It finds that the most effective approach is via system-wide adaptation and collaborative responses in partner countries, alongside domestic action and internal adaptation efforts. The analyses in this compilation show that achieving system-wide adaptation, and ultimately system-wide resilience, requires a level of international cooperation currently missing from European adaptation efforts. Therefore, the EU and its member states are ill-prepared to meet the challenge of cascading and cross-border climate impacts.