Why climate risk is a foreign policy problem

drought uk

As drought grips England and low water levels disrupt the Rhine, trade policy needs to treat climate risk as a standing economic threat, not a one-off shock, says Marco Forgione, DG of The Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade

More than three-quarters of England is now officially in drought. Across Europe, wildfires are burning, while low water levels on the Rhine are once again restricting one of the continent’s busiest inland trading routes.

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