KEY FACTSEurope’s temperatures are increasing at twice the global average rate of 1.2 degrees Celsius, according to the most recent European State of the Climate report, and have been since the 1980s. 2022 brought a spring and summer drought through much of Europe; record-breaking heat; wildfires in the Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and the U.K.; and a record loss of glacier ice from the European Alps.

Source: Forbes June 20, 2023 12:47 UTC