Borderless climate risks have the potential to severely hamper or completely roll-back progress made on building resilience through climate change adaptation. Can they be addressed in the follow-up of the Paris Agreement’s global goal on adaptation? This concern was the convening force behind a recent UNFCCC Side Event at COP23, titled A Global Adaptation Goal and borderless climate risks: Strengths
A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) finds that climate change is already having wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems, the economy, and on human health and well-being in Europe. Hot-spot Southern Europe While all European regions are vulnerable to climate change, some of them stand out. Southern Europe is projected to experience the highest number of climate impacts which