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Climate-Resilient Supply Chains: Proceedings of a Workshopin Brief
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... With the goal of protecting global trade worth almost $20 trillion annually against such disruptions, supply chain executives and researchers who study global supply chains are now starting to focus on ways of increasing supply chain resilience in a world buffeted by climate change. To explore ongoing efforts to create climate-resilient supply chains, the Science and Technology for Sustainability program at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies)
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... In addition to potential bureaucratic disruptions, natural disasters, conflict, and other factors can affect supply chains by disrupting both supply and demand, as well as the viability and capacity of transportation networks. Bottlenecks -- the point in a supply chain that limits its flow and lead time -- the time from initiation of a request for a product to its delivery -- can change dynamically and affect supply chain resilience depending on how disruptions affect them and what capabilities exist for restoration and adaptation after a disruption.
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... "However, that can only be achieved if we can map the supply chain network, predict demand, analyze risk, and engage and incentivize the stakeholders continuously." Food Supply Chains and Environmental Shocks Jessica Gephart, American University, noted that food production is intimately tied to the environment and, as such, there are opportunities for climate change to disrupt the production of crops that require specific temperatures and the amount and timing of water. Livestock can experience heat stress that reduces their productivity, fish stocks are already migrating to cooler water, and aquaculture systems are vulnerable to rising sea levels and flooding.
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... Joshua Merrill, Corteva, noted that rising sea levels, a consequence of climate change, might open new port opportunities, which could be a positive outcome for supply chains in that it might reduce port congestion that currently affects international shipping. On the other hand, climate change will affect what growers can produce and how much they can produce, which will directly influence the reliability of the food supply chain, particularly for those products coming out of Asia.
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... When asked about the role of food imports to bolster the resilience of the food supply chain, Merrill and Petre both remarked that including foreign sources in the supply chain is complicated and may not be feasible because of international trade agreements, country-specific regulations, and concerns about importing diseases along with food products. In fact, zoonotic infectious agents (e.g., bacterium, virus, parasite)
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... Tilmes noted that studying how climate change may affect local food systems and communities is a new endeavor. In fact, he said, the interactions between food systems climate change and communities are proving to be far more complex than at those at the global scale given the thousands of stakeholders who participate in local food supply chains.
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... FIGURE 2 Food system framework showing the components of a food system, such as supply chains and consumer behavior; the internal and external drivers, including climate change; and outcomes of the system, such as nutrition and environmental services. SOURCE: Erin Biehl presentation, September 28, 2021.
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... RETHINKING SUPPLY CHAINS FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE In the workshop's final panel, Cyrus Wadia, Amazon and planning committee member, moderated a panel that discussed the roles that government and other actors can play to make the nation's food supply chain, as well as supply chains more broadly, more resilient in the face of climate change and other unexpected events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The panel also raised the important role that innovation will play in making supply chains more resilient.
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... Discussion Wadia opened the discussion by asking the panelists to comment on what the nation took for granted about its supply chains that the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed to be incorrect. Manning replied that along with the dangers of ignoring supply chain globalization, the negative effect of industry concentration was not something anyone had paid much attention to regarding supply chain resilience.
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... In that regard, the panelists noted that there are examples of government agencies working together, including a new federal task force involving the Agriculture, Commerce, and Transportation departments that aims to increase the resilience of food supply chains. They also pointed out that supply chains are networks that operate across the nation, and efforts to strengthen those networks have to involve all stakeholders, not just a select few.
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... The workshop theme and topics build upon the 2021 workshop series Fostering Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains with Emerging Technologies For additional information regarding this workshop, visit https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/09-27-2021/ workshop-climate-resilient-supply-chains. Suggested citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.


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