Tag: floods

Senior climate scientists are linking global warming to the UK Met Office's announcement yesterday (3 January) that 2012 was England’s rainiest year since records began. 

A leading climate professor says that new evidence which further reinforces the connection between global warming and extreme rainfall is "extremely important" in setting out a methodology which could one day be used to sue energy companies for climate damage.

Norway and Finland are the countries that will be least affected by climate change, while Bangladesh and India are most at risk, according to an index released yesterday (20 October).

Recent spates of extreme weather should be attributed to climate change, according to Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University and Department Head for Climate Impact Research at the Potsdam Institute.

Warnings about the effects of climate change often amount to mere scaremongering, writes author Bjørn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School.

Parliament and Council reached an agreement on Wednesday 25 April on the proposal for a directive on the assessment and management of flood risks, as adaptation to the consequences of climate change becomes the subject of increased EU focus.

Overconsumption, pollution and a general lack of political will to manage finite water resources demonstrate a failing EU water policy, according to a very critical report by WWF.

The WWF called on the EU and national governments to improve land-use to reduce the risks of future flooding.

The European Commission has proposed to set up a 500-1,000 million euro disaster relief fund to deal with natural, technological or environmental disasters in the EU.