Make supply chains climate-smart

摘要

Extreme weather - including massive storms such as Typhoon Haiyan and Hurricane Sandy, and severe floods and droughts - is likely to become more frequent and intense as global warming accelerates1. Links in global economic chains and world markets mean that extreme weather in one place can have repercussions elsewhere. For example, a combination of exceptional rainfall and Cyclone Yasi in 2010-11 paralysed the world's fourth-largest region of coal exploration in Queensland, Australia. Coking coal prices rose the following year by 25%. In 2011, droughts and floods in Russia, Pakistan and Australia caused global food prices to climb, possibly contributing to the escalation of civil unrest in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia.