The majority of MEPs believe that the summer’s devastating droughts and forest fires are a manifestation of climate change and that the EU must provide a robust response.
This is what they asked the European Commission and the EU Council on Tuesday 13 September in a debate obtained by the Greens/EFA on ‘Consequences of drought, fire and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing the EU’s efforts to fight climate change’.
“Climate change continues to affect many people...