The climate effects affect us globally and politically in terms of energy, food, water and migration. It is a question of cross-border challenges and in order to meet them, cross-border research is needed. Mistra Geopolitics is composed to cope with this.

From our earlier work on indicators for cascading and transnational climate impacts, we know that in an international comparison Sweden is more vulnerable to different kinds of indirect climate impacts than to direct climate impacts occurring within our borders.