Europe needs to intensify actions to adapt to climate change impacts

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.

Contact information	EEA: Òscar Romero, Gulcin Karadeniz / JRC: Berta Duane / WHO: Cristiana Salvi (email: oscar.romero@eea.europa.eu ; gulcin.karadeniz@eea.europa.eu ; berta.duane@ec.europa.eu ; csa@ecr.euro.who.int) Phone: +45 33 36 72 07 , +45 23 68 36 53 / +39 0332 789743 / +39 348 0192305
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.eea.europa.eu/pressroom/newsreleases/europe-needs-to-intensify-actions-to-adapt-to-climate-change-impacts
Source of information	European Environment Agency (EEA)
Keyword(s)	climate change impact
Subject(s)	RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY
Relation	http://reports.eea.europa.eu/eea_report_2008_4/en/
Geographical coverage	EU
News date	29/09/2008
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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