European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change: "an urgent coordinated adaptation" needed in the EU

The EU needs "to urgently strengthen its policy framework for effective and coherent adaptation. While rapid and sustained mitigation is indispensable to limit future warming, strengthening adaptation is crucial to prepare for unavoidable temperature increases and safeguard Europe’s strategic priorities", the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change said, on 17/02/2026.

In the first edition of its report, entitled “Strengthening resilience to climate change - Recommendations for an effective EU adaptation policy framework”, the Board "sets out how the EU can strengthen its approach to climate adaptation in the face of escalating and increasingly systemic climate risks".

"Europe is warming about twice as fast as the global average, with rising temperatures driving more frequent and severe climate hazards and impacts felt across all regions of Europe", stressed the report". However, "adaptation efforts to date remain insufficient to prevent avoidable impacts and to manage escalating climate risks".

The Board calls on the EU to :
• "Mandate and harmonise climate risk…