The EU is unprepared for climate risks that are increasing faster than policies to curb them

The European Environment Agency warns of 36 climate risks that require “urgent and immediate action”. At stake are “hundreds of thousands of lives” and losses of up to a trillion euros annually

Whirling in the face of the urgency of climate change is not an option, especially in a Europe that is already the “fastest-warming” continent, twice the global average, warns the European Environment Agency. In its first European Climate Risk Assessment, published on Monday, the EEA highlights 36 major “climate risks”, with serious human, economic and political consequences – there is even talk of “political turbulence” – in a Europe whose containment and prevention policies, it insists, are several steps behind rapidly growing environmental threats.

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