In 2023, the largest single #wildfire 🔥 in Europe since the 1980s occurred

This wildfire affected the #Evros region in #Greece 🇬🇷 and resulted in a burnt area 1.5 times the size of #Madrid

Read more in our #EFFIS report 👇
e.copernicus.eu/EFFIS_Advanced…

i also often want a shorthand for 'rich countries in europe' but the international energy agency describing austria as 'northwest' is really stretching geography

¿Cómo han aumentado las noches #tropicales y #tórridas ?

En los ochenta, en la estación de Barcelona-El Prat se registraban unas 20 noches tropicales al año.
El año pasado fueron 86, y en 2022, 104

#30DayChartChallenge día 14, heatmap en #rstats
#dataviz #ggplot2

L'évaluation #GIEC des leviers d'action liés à la sobriété pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre connaît brutalement un regain d'intérêt.

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Staff at Science Based Targets initiative have called for the CEO and board members to resign after they announced plans to allow companies to meet their climate targets with carbon offsets.

Story with Fiona Harvey 👇

theguardian.com/environment/20…

For the second piece in my Guardian G2 flooding series I went to Germany, where entire houses were washed away with the inhabitants still in them, and still people rebuild exactly as before, close to the river that killed their friends and neighbours
theguardian.com/environment/20…

One thing that’s often missed in proposals for electrifying aviation or switching to carbon-neutral fuels: Doing so means NOT being able to use added clean energy/fuels for *other* needs. Imagine massively expanding green H2 capacity, only to use it for small minority’s desires.

People think the climate emergency will happen years away, in the global south, but it's already happening, here, in Europe, with devastating floods. For my new The Guardian series, I went to Belgium to tell the story of Rosa Reichel, who died at just 15 theguardian.com/environment/20…