Europe is not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks, said the European Environment Agency (EEA) on Monday 11 March, in the context of the publication of the first-ever climate risk assessment report, which informed the European Commission’s ‘climate resilience and adaptation’ package, to be presented on Tuesday 12 March in Strasbourg.
According to the EEA, in many cases, incremental adaptation will not be sufficient.
“If decisive action is not taken now, most climate risks...