Climate pressures reshape trade and transition-finance debates

An FT analysis described environmental change as a driver of new geostrategy, saying climate shifts are reshaping trade, commerce, logistics and geopolitics [ft.com#1]. A separate climate-finance essay argued that heatwaves and droughts in 2026 have put just-transition debates under sharper pressure in financial and postcolonial economic centers in Europe and North America [developingeconomics.org