European countries

Government reaction

Facts

Social impact

environmental impact

Dutch

Portugal

Domestic

International

Intergovernmental cooperation(together with NGOs)

UNFCCC 1992

NAPAs

IPCC 1988

The Kyoto Protocol 1997

The Paris Agreement 2015

NGOs

UNEP

UNDP

Mitigation strategies

Carbon trading

carbon permits

Emissions Trading System (ETS)

Adaptation strategies

Improvement of Infrastructure

the UK/1953/Thames Barrie

The EU's 7th R&D Framework Programme(2007-2013)

clean technologies

increase budget/ environment, energy and transportation/ 8.4 billion euros

wild fire

More than 1,000 hectares of forest and more than 1,200 football fields

1,100 firefighters. 320 fire trucks, 12 aircraft and 130 soldiers assisted in the firefighting.

wild firekilled 24 people from Sunday to Monday night

rise in sea level

the famous Utrecht Dome Cathedral was stopped at 11:23 on Friday

In Rotterdam, large amounts of seawater to flow inlandlarge amounts of seawater to flow inland

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French

air pollution

Restrictions on car use

Australia

high rates of climate-related diseases

extinction for most coral and polar bears

Greece

German

School stops

Finnish

supermarket invites customers to cool off overnight

The heat wave prompts people to sign a joint letter requesting the transfer of cold-streaked animals.

Food shortages

85% less rainfall than the 10 year average

damage as high as 210 million euro

On 23 July, wildfires started in the areas of Attica, killing 100 people, and destroyed or damaged over 1,000 buildings.

direct death

including

heat rash.

heat syncope (fainting), and

heat cramps,

heat exhaustion,

heat stroke,

Early grape harvests for wine farmers

Spain south-east: 40-42 deg. C
Zorita, Spain, Midnight: 35.1 deg. C