In 2024, the European Environment Agency published the first EU Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) report, a comprehensive assessment of the major climate risks Europe is facing today and in the future. It identified 36 climate risks that threaten European energy and food security, ecosystems, infrastructure, water resources, financial systems, and people's health. Many of these risks have already reached critical levels and can become catastrophic without urgent and decisive action.

In order to easily browse this information, we developed two different data viewers: one on major risks, according to their urgency, severity, time horizons, and policy ownership and how they link to exposed EU policy areas, and a second one for an overview of the observed and projected climatic and non-climatic impact drivers affecting the different regions of Europe.

The European Topic Centre on Climate Change Adaptation and Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (ETC CA), which we are part of, was in charge of the report.