Climate-resilience of Seaports: Adequate Finance is Critical for Developing Countries but Remains a Major Challenge

Climate change impacts on seaports can result in significant and costly damage, operational disruption and delay across global supply chains, with important implications for international trade and the sustainable development prospects of the most vulnerable countries. Timely and effective action on adaptation is a matter of growing urgency. Major scaling up of capacity-building and finance will be critical for developing countries, and time is of the essence.