Social and Political Dimensions of Climate Change in Northern Europe

 

The major concerns about the impact of climate change in Northern Europe are extreme heat events, increased coastal and river floods and significant reduction in water availability. There will be more forest fires and heat wave related deaths. There will also be billions of dollars lost in river floods, droughts and forest fires.

Europe for the most part is an example for the world in regards to instituting sound climate change policies. Such as the creating of European climate change program whose goal is to help identify the most environmentally effective and most cost-effective policies and measures that can be taken at European level to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Many countries are using renewable or clean energy too such as Sweden which is limiting there coal use, Finland who is using wind energy, Denmark who is planning to cut all fossil fuel use by 2050 and Austria which is harnessing energy from biomass.

 http://www.eea.europa.eu/soer-2015/europe/climate-change-impacts-and-adaptation

 http://www.activesustainability.com/top-5-countries-in-renewable-energy