Speech by EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs at the EU-Mediterranean-Gulf Conference in Brussels on October 9, 2009: Renewable Energy: Developing a Green Energy Market.

Increasing temperatures, changing precipitation, rising sea level, more intense and frequent extreme weather events and melting glaciers, ice sheets and Arctic sea ice are some of the challenges for Europe already triggered by global climate change, says a report released today by the European Environment Agency, the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.