At her confirmation hearing on Tuesday 12 November, the European Commissioner-designate for the EU’s Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition, Teresa Ribera, was questioned at length about strengthening EU-wide adaptation measures in response to climate change, in the wake of her country’s devastating floods (see EUROPE B13517A14).
Flooding in Spain. In her introductory speech, the current Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition herself referred to the extreme weather events that have...