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🌍 EEA at COP31: bringing European knowledge to global #ClimateAction
From 9 to 20 November, the European Environment Agency will be in Antalya for #COP31, contributing our data, knowledge and expertise to the EU negotiation team and the wider global climate discussions.
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Since the 1970s, global temperatures have risen by about 0.2°C per decade.
🔗 Read the latest C3S climate bulletin: climate.copernicus.eu/surfac…
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Across European land areas, temperatures were 2.20–2.29°C higher over the same decade. In 2025, most datasets show Europe had its second-warmest year since instrumental records began; 2.56–2.71°C above pre-industrial levels
📊Explore EEA temperature data: eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/in…
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Europe is warming faster than the global average. Our latest indicator on global and European temperatures shows that global mean temperature over 2016–2025 was 1.24–1.32°C above pre-industrial levels, making it the warmest decade on record.
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C3S expects the full year to end between 1.56°C and 1.61°C warmer than pre-industrial times.
That makes it almost certain that 2026 will be only the second year to go above 1.5°C, after 2024. Another year at this level would push the four-year avg for 2023–26 above 1.5°C also.
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🌡️2026 is on course to become only the second calendar year on record to pass 1.5°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels.
According to the @CopernicusECMWF Climate Change Service (C3S), the first ten months of 2026 were the second-warmest on record ...
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🔸 planning for future climate conditions rather than past ones
🔸 assessing risks across networks, supply chains and borders
🔸 preparing alternative routes, backup systems and early warning
👉 Read the briefing: eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/pu…
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📈 Industry depends on transport, energy and water systems that are increasingly exposed to climate extremes. Keeping that infrastructure working is thus also a question of Europe’s competitiveness.
🔧 Our briefing sets out 6 lessons for more resilient infrastructure, including:
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With the Rhine carrying most of Germany’s inland waterway freight, the effects reached well beyond the river. In August, the Bundesbank warned that restricted navigation and higher transport costs would weigh on industrial output and exports.
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🚢 Shipping from the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp ports to Basel climbed from EUR 35 to 277 a tonne.
On the Rhine, vessels were travelling only about 20% loaded. Rail and road could absorb only part of the cargo. Supplies of chemicals, metals and fuel were among the hardest hit.
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Climate extremes are now a #competitiveness issue for Europe.
This summer, record-low water pushed freight costs on the river up almost eightfold, according to our new briefing on Europe’s critical #infrastructure under #climate stress.
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🤝 Through the Cross-Agency #OneHealth Task Force, set up in 2023, we work alongside @ECDC_EU, @EU_ECHA, @EFSA_EU and @EMA_News to bring together knowledge and expertise on human, animal, plant and ecosystem health.
👉 Learn more about One Health: eea.europa.eu/en/topics/at-a…
Pollution is linked to more than 10% of premature deaths in the EU, while #climatechange is already bringing health threats such as heat, floods and infectious diseases. Biodiversity loss and land-use change may also increase the risk of diseases passing from animals to humans.
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🌍 On this #OneHealthDay, we are highlighting why the health of people, animals, plants and ecosystems cannot be protected in isolation.
The air we breathe, the water we drink and the ecosystems around us all shape our health and well-being ...
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Our findings arrive as the @EU_Commission has presented the EU Framework for #ClimateResilience.
📄 Read ‘Europe’s critical infrastructure under climate stress — lessons from 2026’: eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/ne…
1.Plan for future climate conditions
2.Assess risks across systems, not only individual assets
3.Stress-test infrastructure
4.Prep alternatives & contingency measures
5.Strengthen coordination btw owners, regulators, authorities
6.Combine near-term fixes with long-term adaptation
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These events confirm risks identified in the European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) in 2024. They also show that the pace of adaptation needs to increase if Europe’s infrastructure is to cope.
🔍 Our briefing draws six lessons:
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Drought, wildfires and storms also disrupted transport, energy and water supply across Europe this year.
In many cases, impacts spread from one sector to another. Extreme heat amplified by #climatechange cost the EU at least 1% of GDP in 2026, according to our new briefing ...
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👉 Explore climate change mitigation in the health sector: climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/…
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