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If we want to understand how climate change will affect economic activity then we need to be monitoring impacts through observation of actual events – not just relying on projections – and in particular monitoring complex and cascading impacts.
This is a fascinating new collaboration by the International Monetary Fund and Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford to monitor how extreme weather events and other events disrupt port operations, trade and supply chains through satellite-based vessel data and big data analytics.
