US EditionEU climate watchdog urges Europe to step up environmental protections
- The European Environment Agency published its Europe’s environment 2025 report on September 29, 2025, assessing the continent’s environmental state.
- Despite a 37 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990, the EU faces growing biodiversity loss, degraded habitats, and mounting climate impacts.
- Extreme weather caused over 240,000 deaths in the EU between 1980 and 2023, while floods in Slovenia cost 16 percent of its GDP in 2023.
- Catherine Ganzleben emphasized that pursuing sustainability is inevitable and urged immediate action, warning that postponing efforts will increase costs; she also noted a slight increase in the use of circular materials.
- The agency urged EU countries to accelerate European Green Deal policies to better protect nature, reduce pollution, and increase resilience to global warming.
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Climate change and pollution threaten Europe's resources, EU warns - BusinessWorld Online
AMSTERDAM – Climate change and environmental degradation pose a direct threat to the natural resources that Europe needs for its economic security, the EU’s environmental agency said on Monday. The European Environment Agency said biodiversity in Europe is declining due to unsustainable production and consumption, especially in the food system. Due to over-exploitation of natural resources, pollution and invasive alien species, more than 80% of …
What about the environment in Europe? The European Environment Agency has examined this issue in its report, which it publishes every five years. The results promise nothing good. By Kathrin Schmid.
EU countries need to do much more to save nature, says the European Environment Agency.
The environment in Europe is not in a good state. This is the conclusion reached by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in a new report. Although great progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, other areas are of great concern to the Agency.
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