{"id":27221,"date":"2024-05-09T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=27221"},"modified":"2024-05-09T20:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:10:35","slug":"climate-change-mitigation-is-no-longer-enough-europeans-need-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/05\/09\/climate-change-mitigation-is-no-longer-enough-europeans-need-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change mitigation is no longer enough: Europeans need protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Amid the unrelenting onslaught of extreme weather events, mitigating climate change is no longer sufficient \u2013 although it is crucial. We must also learn to live with the consequences, which are happening here and now and which affect the most vulnerable European citizens and regions the most.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Recent findings from the European Environment Agency show that Europe is the fastest warming continent on the planet. Climate risks affect everything from energy and food security to ecosystems, infrastructure and public health. In the European Union alone, floods, devastating fires, heatwaves and prolonged droughts have already caused staggering economic losses exceeding 650 billion euros since 1980 and claimed 195,000 lives. According to the same agency, approximately EUR 520 billion is needed annually to achieve the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 and to implement the Green Deal. (<em>Hang on\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu\/publications\/mitigating-climate-change-no-longer-enough-europeans-need-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">socialistsanddemocrats.eu<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the relentless onslaught of extreme weather events, it is no longer enough \u2013 although crucial \u2013 to mitigate climate change. We must also learn to live with the consequences that are happening here and now, and that are hitting Europe\u2019s most vulnerable citizens and regions hardest. Recent findings from the European Environment Agency show that Europe is the fastest warming continent on the planet. Climate risks [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}