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Trees are a powerful solution to the climate crisis. They reduce the risk of landslides and floods, improve air quality, and even protect mental health.

As wildfires force entire towns to evacuate across Greece, the country is experiencing heat that climate change has made up to five times more likely.

Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally, according to the first edition of a new systematic review.

This paper provides an overview of Greece's wildfire policies and practices and assesses the extent to which wildfire management in the country is evolving to adapt to growing wildfire risk under climate change.

The Wildfire Peer Review Report for Greece was released today, 20 June; the result of over six months of work on the side of Greek authorities, peer experts, and the Commission.

The Hellenic Red Cross activated its Simplified Early Action Protocol (EAP) for Extreme Heat on 8 June 2024, after the National Observatory of Athens predicted scorching temperatures across Greece this week.

The aim of this report is to investigate the potential for harnessing key features of Transformative Innovation to improve the design and the implementation of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies, based on empirical analyses.

The authors propose a long-term strategy for integrating wildfire risk management into forest land management and note that large fires are often followed by investment in fire-fighting infrastructure, but not wildfire mitigation and prevention.