“Adaptation is no longer an option. It is necessary, given the current global warming situation”, declared the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra, on Tuesday 20 May, at the 4th EU Mission Forum on Adaptation to Climate Change in Wrocław (Poland), where he had visited the previous day.
In view of the increasing number of climatic disasters and their varied nature - floods, droughts, heat waves - the European Commission is preparing, as the Commissioner pointed...