‘Europe could be at frontline of world climate emergency’
Amina Taylor
Press TV, London
The world is facing a climate emergency and unless there is urgent action, Europe could be at the frontline of this new disaster.
This stark warning comes courtesy of a new report the "State and Outlook of the European Environment". The document, released every five years, calls for significantly scaled up efforts to successfully combat climate change.
According to the head of European Union Environmental Agency, there is not much time left to make lasting changes.
With the UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Madrid until December 13, there have been more urgent warning from research groups, including Germanwatch who laid out the human and financial cost of failing to tackle the climate emergency in just the past decade.
With Europe set to be one of the biggest climate losers should a workable strategy to combat climate change not be implemented, new European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen has pledged to address the issue. Amongst her targets: to make Europe the world's first climate neutral continent by 2050 as well as curtailing biodiversity loss within her five years in office.
The issue that Europe will have to face is how to marry EU policies with global ones. The World Health Organisation is clear about the scale of the problem.
For many in Europe or beyond, whatever the reports say and regardless of the research and pledges, they are already living with the consequences of the globe’s inability to deal with the climate crisis.
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