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Why does Europe need to limit climate change and adapt to its impacts?

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News Published 10 Feb 2020 Last modified 20 Feb 2020

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Photo: © Máté Ladjánszki, My City /EEA

Europe’s many regions are expected to face worsening impacts of climate change over the next decades. A compilation of several existing maps published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) today illustrates how drought, heavy rain and flooding, forest fires and sea-level rise could affect some selected regions in Europe, including Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula, Scandinavia, Brittany and Venice.