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European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) Interactive viewer
Published in 2024, the first European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) is a comprehensive assessment of the major climate risks facing Europe today and in the future. It identifies 36 climate risks that threaten our 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. Two interactive viewers are available to get an overview of (i) the major risks according to their urgency, severity, time horizons, and policy ownership and how they link to exposed EU policy areas and (ii) the observed and projected climatic and non-climatic impact drivers affecting the different regions of Europe.
What you can do with it
Input
- Select one of the 36 major climate risks assessed for Europe.
- Explore urgency, severity, time horizons and policy ownership.
- Examine links between risks and exposed EU policy areas.
- Select a European subcontinental region to explore observed and projected climatic and non-climatic impact drivers.
- Compare risks and drivers across European regions.
Output
- Interactive overview of 36 major European climate risks.
- Risk information organised by urgency, severity, time horizon and policy ownership.
- Links between risks and EU policy areas.
- Maps and visualisations of climatic and non-climatic impact drivers.
- Direct links to evidence and findings from the first EUCRA report.
Use it to
- Understand the major climate risks facing Europe.
- Identify risks requiring urgent policy attention.
- Compare risk severity, time horizons and policy ownership.
- Explore regional drivers affecting different parts of Europe.
- Support strategic European and national climate-risk discussions.
- Use EUCRA evidence to prepare risk assessments and adaptation priorities.
Why is it relevant to climate adaptation
Translates the first European Climate Risk Assessment into two accessible views: one focused on the urgency and governance of 36 major risks, and another on the drivers affecting different European regions. This helps policymakers and practitioners connect scientific evidence with policy ownership and prioritisation, rather than treating risks as isolated environmental issues. The viewer is best suited to strategic European and national discussions because the regional spatial information is organised at a coarse subcontinental scale.
Used in
- Communication and use of the first European Climate Risk Assessment, published in 2024.
- Strategic assessment of 36 risks affecting European energy, food, ecosystems, infrastructure, water, finance and health.
- EU-level and national policy discussions on risk urgency, severity, time horizon and ownership.
- Regional comparison of climatic and non-climatic impact drivers across Europe.
- Evidence linked directly to the EEA’s EUCRA-1 report.
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