📊 Chart of the week: Annual EU direct economic losses from extreme weather and climate events
📑 By @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @marie-lappe.bsky.social, @iremonas.bsky.social, Massimo Tavoni and @gzachmann.bsky.social
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Bruegel
This is important.
It’s been great to join the #EESCPlenary today and exchange on how circular economy could be succesfully and fairly built in Europe!
Thanks for the opportunity. Happy to work together!
Courage and pride are needed to defend democracy, cooperation and human dignity.
This is not only about rational arguments. It is also about emotions, fears and hopes.
People need answers that help them face uncertainty.
🍀 Happy to welcome the Global School of Sustainability at #LSE
Today, I had the great privilege to meet Prime Minister Terrance Drew of Saint Kitts and Nevis and to express our full engagement with all those suffering already the terrible impacts of climate change.
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The SIDS are at the frontline of its devastating effects, but science shows how El Niño or an eventual AMOC collapse will drive harm and suffer much beyond the Caribbean region.
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🍀Developing a national ambitious climate agenda and ensuring committed international cooperation is a no brainer. It delivers social benefits to local communities, securing supply of water and food.
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Teresa Ribera
Teresa Ribera
Affordable. Resilient. Homegrown. Clean. Team Europe stands ready to partner together with St. Kitts and Nevis to unlock the region's geothermal, solar and interconnection potential. 🌋☀️⚡
A million thanks. Always ready to team up with you. 🙏
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Teresa Ribera
🇪🇺Welcome to Brussels for the #ECF
Competition policy is strongest when it remains anchored in its values while responding to the challenges.
💡Our task is not simply to preserve frameworks, but to ensure they continue to deliver fairness, innovation and opportunity in this new reality.
