Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024 | Climate crisis

Storms and floods that are gone Europe Last year, a report affected 413,000 people, as a report found, as the pollution of the fossil fuel forced continent to suffer during the most hot year.

The dramatic scenes of cars that accumulated in the streets that were dumped and bridges that were walked throughout the continent were seen in 2024, with “high” floods on 30 % of the European river network and 12 % crossing the “severe” flood threshold, according to the European Climate Report.

The most destructive examples were the pies that torn it Central Europe In September and East Spain In October, more than 250 out of 335 deaths in floods registered throughout the continent in 2024.

Previous studies have found that disasters have become stronger and more likely due to global heating, allowing clouds that calm down the land with more rains.

“Every additional part of the temperature degree is important, but societies must also adapt to a more hot world.

“We are making progress, but we need to move forward and we need to go faster,” she said. “We need to go together.”

The report, which was published on Tuesday’s COPERNICUS climate service in the European Union and WMO, found the numbers of days with “Strong”, “Strong” and “severe heat stress” were all the highest record.

The report found that southeastern Europe witnessed the longest heat wave ever in July 2024, as it was more than half of the region for 13 days in a row, while high temperatures throughout the continent contributed to destroyed forest fires that affected 42,000 people. About a quarter of the burning region in Europe last year came from destroyed forest fires In Portugal in SeptemberWhich burned about 110,000 hectares in one week.

“The report” puts a number of European population already suffering from harsh weather “at 1.3 degrees Celsius of global heating over pre -industrial levels.

“We are on the right path to the 3c experience by 2100,” she said. “You just need to return your mind to the floods SpainFires in Portugal, or summer heat waves last year to know the destruction of this level of warming. “

The authors of the report highlighted the “extraordinary” contrast between Western and Eastern Europe, as the West tended to be wet, clouds, warm and sunny east. River flows tend to be higher than average in Western countries and less than average in Sharqia. In several months of last year, the Times in the UK and Light in France witnessed its highest flow in a record of 33 years.

The ice rivers in all regions have had a loss of clear ice, as those in the Scandinavian countries and Svlbard were lost more than ever, according to the report. The authors also noticed high temperatures north of the Arctic circle, and the hottest sea temperature registered in the Mediterranean Sea.

“It has not only a direct impact on its environmental systems, but also plays a role in weather patterns that affect all Europe.”

Europe rises twice as soon as possible on the global average, but has reduced its pollution that is on the coccles faster than other major economies. The European Union plans to strike the net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and is expected to also announce a 90 % net reduction of 2040 later this year.

Thomas Gilin, climate activist at Greenpeace Eu, said that the report showed that politicians failed to hold fossil fuel companies and stop the expansion of their polluted business.

He said: “The only parts of Europe that are not boiled in floods are washed.” “The European Union must update its climatic goals urgently to reflect the scientific reality, and put an end to the new fossil fuels’ projects as a first step to the complete gradual disposal. ”