"as the EU's climate advisory board urges countries to prepare for a catastrophic 3C of global heating. Maarten van Aalst, a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC), said the continent was already paying a price for its lack of preparation but that adapting to a hotter future was in part common-sense and low-hanging fruit. It is a daunting task, but at the same time"
"The ESABCC describes current efforts to adapt to rising temperatures as insufficient, largely incremental [and] often coming too late in a new report that advises officials to prepare for a world 2.8-3.3C hotter than preindustrial levels by 2100. Such a dramatic rise in temperatures the prospect of which has left some leading climate scientists feeling hopeless would be double the level of global heating that world leaders promised to aim for when they signed the Paris agreement in 2015."
The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) recommends preparing for global heating of about 2.8–3.3°C above preindustrial levels by 2100 and advises stress-testing even hotter scenarios. Current adaptation efforts are described as insufficient, largely incremental, and often coming too late. Maarten van Aalst emphasizes that many adaptation measures are common-sense, low-hanging fruit and are doable despite the scale of the challenge. Europe is already suffering the costs of under-preparation: extreme rains killed 134 people in Germany (2021) and 229 in Spain's Valencia region (2024). Summer heat causes many tens of thousands of deaths annually, with studies linking roughly half to two-thirds to fossil-fuel-driven warming.
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