More floods, droughts and fires there are in any case. The EU environment Agency calls for quick measures to be taken against the consequences of the earth rhitzung.

climate change leads to fires more forest fires in Ziltendorf and Brandenburg: in the summer of 2019 photo: Julian steels/dpa

BRUSSELS taz | After the EU-Agency, was published on Monday in Copenhagen alarming maps to the consequences of the climate crisis in Europe, was blocked from the site for hours – the demand was too great. The cards show what will happen if the sea level rises by one, two or even four meters. Large parts of the North sea coast in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France would disappear in the floods. Cities such as London, The Hague or Rotterdam would be in Need of.

in addition to high water and Flooding Europe drought, drought and forest fire threaten. In Germany, the forest fire risk will increase especially in Eastern Germany must adjust to greater dryness. The New: The danger is, even if the EU controls against. The consequences of climate change became, according to the environment Agency inevitable. The question is only how bad you fail.

The EU countries would have to adjust quickly to the negative consequences, stated the experts. "Climate change is already and will be in the future, more serious, even if the global efforts to reduce greenhouse gases have success." This is not to say that the "European Green Deal", or any other climate would be plans superfluous. The consequences of the crisis would be "a lot less bad if it by lowering the greenhouse gases manage to keep global warming well below 2 degrees," emphasize the experts.

at the same time would have to adapt to the EU countries to new risks, and protection measures to further expand. The governments should take regional and local conditions into consideration. This is a Wake-up call to the EU. Because the Commission has aligned its European Green Deal so far on the climate-friendly restructuring of the economy. The focus of new "green" growth through CO2-saving, and not protection against Storms, floods and fires.

Need a "serious" adaptation "strategy" is to protect citizens, homes, business, and tourism, warns the head of the environment Committee in the European Parliament, Pascal Canfin. "The climate shock is coming and can no longer be avoided" the liberal Frenchman. Similarly, the green MEP Jutta Paul said. "It is the will to Act is still missing," she said. The EU had proposed a Commission to promote new Gas projects. It was "incomprehensible, and the citizens of difficult to explain, as we want given our plight even more money in climate-damaging measures stuck," says Paul. The Greens want to vote against the funding list.