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