Top Soy, Coffee, Sugar Ports Tackle Climate Change in Brazil

As Brazil contends with its worst drought in almost a century, its ports and their regulator are intensifying efforts to quantify the risks of climate change at its maritime hubs — the world’s biggest for coffee, soybeans and sugar.

The National Agency for Waterway Transportation and the German Corporation for International Cooperation are analyzing risks ranging from gales to rising sea levels in the country’s hubs in an effort to tackle decades-long gaps in data.