The European Union is not prepared for worsening climate change and should urgently step up its investments to protect people and infrastructure from mounting floods, wildfires and severe heatwaves, its independent advisers said on Tuesday.
While the EU has ambitious targets to cut greenhouse gases - the main cause of climate change - its efforts have fallen short on adapting to the extreme weather climate change is already fuelling, according to the EU's advisers, the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.