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Europe's changing climate hazards — an index-based interactive EEA report
Key messages
- Climate change due to human activities is now undeniably responsible for an increase in extreme weather events in Europe.
- Pronounced regional differences in conditions mean that one-size-fits-all responses are no match for the growing threat that these climate hazards pose to property and lives.
- People everywhere need to be prepared for more days with extreme temperatures and for more extreme precipitation events. The Mediterranean region especially should be ready for hotter summers and more frequent droughts.
- High-quality, enriched data are crucial to assess who is likely to be affected and how, yet not all EEA member countries have had access to such fine-grained data. Now all European regions do.
- The EEA’s tools help European countries to implement their policies on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, under the European Climate Law and the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
Chapters of the Europe's changing climate hazards report
- What will the future bring when it comes to climate hazards? — Overview
- Europe’s changing climate hazards — about the report
- Explore the hazards and the indices related to the six categories:
Consult an overview of Europe's 16 hazards with their 32 indices grouped into six hazard types as identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Sixth Assessment Report, by clicking on the image:
Features of the EEA’s interactive climate hazards report and related products
Climate hazards are grouped under 32 indices and presented in a highly visual way to help decision-makers understand the challenges they face and prepare for them. The features of the report include:
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an index-based overview of past and projected changes in major climate hazards affecting Europe
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access to generalised or detailed information according to user needs in the European Climate Data Explorer
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insight into how various climate hazards affect different sectors
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the ability to zoom in on the data for a region or even a sub-region - for 15 of the 32 indices.
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interactive maps to better represent and communicate climate hazards to everyone affected.
Consult technical information on the indices: Technical Paper 1/2020 Climate-related hazard indices for Europe by the ETC/CCA.
Consult the European Climate Data Explorer on the EEA’s Climate-ADAPT portal, based on data delivered by Copernicus Climate Change System.
Browse an overview of national and transnational climate atlases in Europe, which provides information that is complementary to this report.
Photo: © Juan Manuel Hernández López, Climate Change PIX /EEA
Acronyms and abbreviations, concepts and definitions
Identifiers
Title: Europe's changing climate hazards — an index-based interactive EEA report
HTML - TH-AL-21-015-EN-Q- ISBN 978-92-9480-407-5 ISSN 1977-8449 - doi: 10.2800/458052
The country assessments are the sole responsibility of the EEA member and cooperating countries supported by the EEA through guidance, translation and editing.
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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/europes-changing-climate-hazards-1/climate-hazards-indices or scan the QR code.
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