It is one of the conclusions of an international meeting held in Fokohama in Japan to discuss climate change .
The risk of forest fires, in particular, mega - fires, will continue to increase in Portugal and southern Europe in the next 25 years. This is one of the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ), which met in Japan. A report that involved the work of thousands of scientists and experts, being considered a strategic document to support the global climate and policies of each one of the countries
Another of the conclusions drawn for our country are the windstorms, a trend that has been notice and ir is strong and it been winning great proportions since the 70s , due to accumulation of fuels, climate change and meteorological events that will extend beyond our territory towards France, Spain , Italy and Turkey .
In terms of coastal flooding alerts are becoming more frequent, the group of analysts and experts predicted that will affect up to 5.5 million people in southern and northern Europe , as direct costs that could reach 17 million euros. The summer tourism will suffer some changes , and the winter in the mountains , as rising temperatures will cause less snow on the highlands and in the southern conditions of saturation and drainage associated with the rains will restrictas certain periods winter and spring.
For the European continent the data is not encouraging is one of the areas hit hardest by climate change. Northern Europe and the central UK area would be heavily affected by the floods, affecting more than double the current annual damage . Considering the impacts of floods on economic growth, the damages caused by the rising waters may increase 17 times in a temperature increase of 5.5 ° C scenario.
Europe is a global provider of food, so food security will be affected by the global fall in connection with climate change, including fungal diseases and productivity. Not to mention the value of forests that could drop up to several hundreds of billions of euros, and the incidence of wood beetles, fungi and diseases will increase. On the other hand , warmer sea temperatures and ocean acidification will impact fisheries and sea industry.
Climate change has affected and will continue to affect all aspects of biodiversity in Europe , including the time of spring migration of birds and their breeding season . It is anticipated that suitable habitats for breeding birds in Europe moving almost 550 km by the end of the century .
Hence, the IPCC warns that an immediate reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases is necessary to avoid spending limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, with which the European Union and all other nations pledged in Copenhagen. Europe's climate ambition has not changed in the last five years and its proposed 40 % emissions reductions by 2030 is not a guarantee that we will stay below a warming of 2 degrees Celsius.
