Impacts, risks and adaptation to climate change
Climate change is already affecting the daily lives of Europeans and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Europe is expected to warm, with some regions drier and others wetter. These changes will not only affect our health, but also the ecosystems we depend on. The EU is preparing to live with a changing climate through various adaptation measures. Extreme weather events such as storms, heatwaves and floods have taken their toll in Europe over the past 40 years 85,000 to 145,000 human deaths. More than 85 % of these deaths were caused heat waves . Economic losses caused by extreme weather and climate in Europe have reached for the same period, approximately half a billion euros .
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