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Press Release

Europe needs to intensify actions to adapt to climate change impacts

Press Release Published 26 Sep 2008 Last modified 08 May 2017

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Increasing temperatures, changing precipitation, rising sea level, more intense and frequent extreme weather events and melting glaciers, ice sheets and Arctic sea ice are some of the challenges for Europe already triggered by global climate change, says a report released today by the European Environment Agency, the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.