The European Commission has recognised that European policies are failing to match the accelerating pace and impacts of climate change and pledged to "double down" efforts to mitigate climate change following last week's extreme and deadly heatwave across Western Europe.
EU officials have said heatwaves are likely to recur this summer and stressed that the bloc must shift from reacting to disasters to preventing them, with a climate resilience strategy set to be launched in the fourth quarter of the year.
