Climate crisis
An interactive map on climate warming in Europe
Friday 18 December 2020 |
OBC Transeuropa Sheldon.studio
Our analysis looks at the rise in average temperature for about 100,000 municipalities in Europe. Mean temperature values of the 1960s were compared with those of the 2010s, in order to explore the import of global warming at a local level.
Climate warming in Europe, municipality by municipality
Large investigation
Thursday 14 May 2020 |
Lorenzo Ferrari Ornaldo Gjergji
| OBC Transeuropa
In more than 35,000 European municipalities, average temperatures have risen by more than 2°C over the last fifty years. From big cities to small villages, the climate crisis reaches every corner of Europe – but citizens are rising up, and people in power are finally taking action.
Beach erosion puts European seaside holidays at risk
Wednesday 22 July 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
The data on global warming suggests that many seaside resorts in Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe could lose their beaches due to sand erosion caused by rising sea levels and human activity.
It's time for Croatia to embrace the European Green Deal
Tuesday 06 October 2020 |
Toni Gabrić | H-Alter
Average temperatures are rising more and more in the Zagreb region, while snow cover is decreasing year after year. However, Jagoda Munić, Director of Friends of the Earth Europe says that “Croatia is a very passive observer of developments around the European Green Deal.”
Much progress to be made on gender equality and climate action
Tuesday 30 June 2020 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | VoxEurop
Eurostat has just published the 2020 report on EU progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Those where it has underperformed particularly affect women.
The price of coastal flood mitigation in Europe
in depth
Wednesday 06 May 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | VoxEurop
MobileReporter
European countries are set to invest up to €2.82 billion per year until 2100 to avoid losing as much as €1.27 trillion due to climate-driven coastal flood damage, a new analysis by the EU Joint Research Center shows.
Carbon emissions: straight back to bad habits?
Tuesday 16 June 2020 |
Antoine de Ravignan | Alternatives Economiques
The Covid-19 crisis brought about unprecedented reductions in CO2 emissions and energy consumption, benefiting renewables. This effect may be temporary however – but it could also mark the beginning of an ecological transition compatible with safeguarding the planet.
Climate crisis makes beaches disappear
in depth
Wednesday 04 March 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | VoxEurop
MobileReporter
Europe is set to lose up to 15,000 km of shoreline due to erosion. The UK, France, Greece, Spain and Italy will be especially affected. And European holidaymakers will find less sand on beaches during their trips to warm destinations around the world.
Climate change is happening now in Europe
Tuesday 11 February 2020 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | VoxEurop
Key climate hazards are already affecting Europe and will increasingly do so, a series of maps published by the European Environment Agency reveals. Impacts, calculated through different scenarios and models, can only be reduced by keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°Cs.
Cities slow to respond to challenges posed by climate change
Large investigation
in depth
Friday 21 June 2019 |
Nicolas Kayser-Bril | VoxEurop
Journalism++
An update on the temperature data from 558 cities and their surroundings in Europe shows that 2018 was the warmest year since 1900 in 203 cities. Local response to the climate breakdown varies widely, according to a survey of a 61 local authorities in six countries by the European Data Journalism Network.
