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The indicator shows total economic losses from weather- and climate-related extreme events (such as windstorms, flooding, heatwaves, cold spells, droughts or wildfires) per country and per year (since 1980). A moving average for the previous 30 years is added because of the large interannual variability of the losses.
Romania is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events such as drought and floods. This affects economic sectors: agriculture, water resources, forestry, infrastructure, energy and health. For example, the impact of climate change on watercourses resulted in 215 extreme flood events in 2022, compared with 94 events recorded in 2010. The floods in 2022 affected a total of .
The strategic objectives proposed within Romania’s 2022–2030 national strategy on adaptation to climate change for 2050 and within Romania’s national action plan for the implementation of the national strategy on adaptation to climate change for the population, public health and air quality sector are the following:
- establishing the RO-ADAPT platform for the inventory, monitoring and quantification of climate risks for public health;
- creating a national framework that ensures resilience to cross-border climate risks that can affect the population, the health system and air quality;
- protecting citizens’ health against the impacts of calamities, by consolidating the national emergency management system and connecting it with RO-ADAPT .
References and footnotes
- ↵Ministerul Mediului, Apelor și Pǎdurilor and Agenția Naționalǎ Pentru Protecția Mediliu, Raport Anual Privind Starea Mediului în România, Anul 2022, Bucharest, 2023, accessed 25 June 2025, http://www.anpm.ro/documents/12220/2209838/RSM+2022.pdf/778fd7cc-2383-4e47-b9ef-b90d36ea638e.
- ↵Government of Romania, ‘Strategia națională privind adaptarea la schimbările climatice (SNASC) pentru perioada 2024–2030’, government of Romania website, accessed 25 June 2025, https://gov.ro/ro/strategia-nationala-privind-adaptarea-la-schimbarile-climatice-snasc-pentru-perioada-2024-2030.