Climate risks dwarf Europe's energy crisis, space chief warns

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PARIS: The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has warned economic damage from heatwaves and drought could dwarf Europe's energy crisis as he called for urgent action to tackle climate change. Director General Josef Aschbacher told Reuters successive heatwaves along with wildfires, shrinking rivers and

More than 57,200 hectares have been swallowed by wildfire in France this year, nearly six times the full-year average.Utah's Great Salt Lake and Italy's Po River are at their lowest recorded levels. France's Loire is now on the watch list.That follows record temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius that placed a renewed focus on climate risks at July's Farnborough Airshow in southern England, where Aschbacher said the issue was humanity's biggest challenge.

Together, the programme's six families of Sentinel satellites aim to read the planet's"vital signs" from carbon dioxide to wave height or temperatures of land and oceans. After leaving the EU last year, Britain remains a member of ESA and its 170-million-euro direct contribution is unaffected. A funding package for Earth observation worth an estimated 3 billion euros will be discussed by ESA ministers in November.

 

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