A proactive and anticipatory approach to climate risk management to mitigate the impact of Europe's increasingly frequent and destructive droughts and floods was at the heart of a debate on ‘The Water Crisis’ added to the agenda of the European Parliament's plenary session on Tuesday 6 February, to tie in with the debate on the Commission's communication on the EU's 2040 climate target.
This was an opportunity for the European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevičius,...