More than $122 billion of economic activity - $81 billion in international trade - is at risk from the impact of extreme climate events, according to new research today [20 July] from Oxford's Environmental Change Institute . According to the paper in Nature Climate Change, systemic impacts - those risks faced due to knock-on effects within global shipping, trade and supply chains network - will hit ports and economies around the world, even if the local ports are not directly affected by extreme events.

https://www.miragenews.com/climate-extremes-threaten-ports-risk-billions-1050901/

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