Climate resilience: Brussels wants the EU to prepare its economy for a world three degrees warmer

The climate resilience plan proposes incorporating the risks of warming into investments and infrastructure, with adaptation needs of 70,000 million euros per year.

Building a road, deciding where to invest or awarding public works requires looking at the climate that is coming.

Brussels is committed to climate resilience being part of the political and economic decisions of the Twenty-Seven, using a global warming scenario of three degrees by the end of the century as a reference. The proposal seeks to anticipate losses that are already weighing on the European economy, since extreme weather and climate events caused some 200,000 million euros in direct damage between 2022 and 2025. The European Commission proposes to move from response after the disaster to prevention based on future conditions of heat, floods and drought.

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