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Climate risks across borders and scales

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Changing climates are outpacing some components of our food systems. Risk assessments need to account for these rates of change. Assessing risk transmission mechanisms across sectors and international boundaries and coordinating policies across governments are key steps in addressing this challenge.

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Figure 1: Risks derived from an analysis of international and domestic dimensions of climate change (refs 4,12).

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 7 of CCRA2017 (ref. 4) underpins this Commentary and was co-authored by M. Baylis, D. Conway, D. Depledge, A. Geddes, S. McCorriston and L. Stringer. N.A. acknowledges support from High-end Climate Impacts and Extremes project of the EU. A.J.C. acknowledges support from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

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  1. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Andrew J. Challinor

  2. Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK

    W. Neil Adger

  3. Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Tim G. Benton

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Challinor, A., Adger, W. & Benton, T. Climate risks across borders and scales. Nature Clim Change 7, 621–623 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3380

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