Climate Extremes and Supply Security: Impacts, Interdependencies, and Research Needs

This pilot study explores how climate-related extremes such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, heavy rains, fires or storms disrupt supply chains in the water, energy, and food sectors, often intensifying existing goal conflicts or creating new ones. It examines the complex interdependencies between these sectors, including how disruptions in one sector can cascade to others, highlights strategies for enhancing resilience and preparedness against future climate-induced supply challenges, and identifies current knowledge gaps for further action.

Related ongoing projects:

• EU horizon 2020 project: NEXOGENESIS Facilitating the next generation of effective and intelligent water-related policies utilising artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning to assess the water-energy-food-ecosystem (WEFE) nexus https://nexogenesis.eu/
• EU Water4All project: REACTION - Navigating the Risks of Hydroclimatic Extremes for Freshwater Ecosystem Services in Forest Landscapes