Temperature records were shattered across southern Europe, and simultaneous large fires challenged the ability of European authorities to co-ordinate. "And in the winter we are going to drown from the floods without the forests that were protecting us." (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images)As a result, he said, land once intensively farmed and occupied is being abandoned and reclaimed by new, rapid-growth forests that fuel larger fires, Goldammer said. The European Union's post-COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Fund is earmarking huge sums of money for governments, including for climate mitigation. European bureaucracy is too complex for most small-scale landowners to navigate, and political leadership is, at least for now, lacking.

Source: CBC News September 26, 2021 07:52 UTC