DAILY STATEMENT: EU policies must fight the climate crisis in overseas entities

THE LATEST – The impacts of climate change are more strongly felt in the EU’s overseas entities than in the rest of Europe. These islands and far flung regions of the EU can serve as a laboratory for developing adaptation strategies to the impacts of global warming. Such biodiversity hotspots can also work as models for the rest of their own region. There must be equal investment from the EU in the development of not only a general infrastructure but also the all important natural infrastructure.

THE QUOTE – “This meeting has to ask the questions that many have so far been afraid to ask,” says IUCN’s Tamás Marghescu. “If the EU fails to act on climate change impacts in its overseas entities then its entire work to stem biodiversity loss will be severely downscaled.”