{"id":2156922,"date":"2026-09-21T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2156922"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:00:50","slug":"born-into-a-burning-europe-how-extreme-fire-weather-will-worsen-for-children-and-how-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2156922","title":{"rendered":"Born into a burning Europe: How extreme fire weather will worsen for children and how to stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/91\/87\/82\/1200x675_cmsv2_9ac0eed6-4f2e-5f69-a233-433ff5c36600-9918782.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2927685-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2927685\" data-cid=\"9923016\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2927685-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"the-media-object__image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/92\/29\/34\/189x106_cmsv2_0e415239-475c-5d30-b434-dad2a818816b-9922934.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"File photo\" height=\"9\" width=\"16\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n                    Travel News<\/p>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Foreign visitors drive gains in Greek tourism in July\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"abe-2927677-pos2-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2927677\" data-cid=\"9922914\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2927677-label-pos2-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"the-media-object__image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/92\/29\/14\/189x106_cmsv2_a5e3cdea-6a7b-5e37-867d-45778c36d1fc-9922914.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., left, gestures beside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. 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reliance on fossil fuels doesn\u2019t end.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content c-article-content--earth js-article-content\">\n<p>Today\u2019s babies and infants will suffer an extra three years of \u201cextreme fire weather\u201d over their lives compared to grandparents unless emissions are cut, a new study warns. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Europe is warming more than twice as fast as the global average, paving the way for more bouts of extreme weather. Following back-to-back heatwaves that scorched the continent, much of Europe was struck by long periods of drought this year.<\/p>\n<p>This created ideal conditions for deadly wildfires that ripped through Spain, France and Greece, burning hundreds of thousands of hectares and triggering one of the biggest evacuation efforts since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>New research from Vrije Universiteit Brussel cautions that Europe\u2019s accelerated warming will have dire consequences for younger generations, despite them having done the least to cause climate change.<\/p>\n<h2>European children to face more \u2018extreme fire weather\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The study, published in the science journal Environmental Research Letters, found that a child born in Europe in 2025 will live through more than three additional years of extreme fire weather compared with someone born in 1950 if we continue with current climate policies. That presents an 84 per cent increase for today\u2019s babies compared to their grandparents. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA child born in Europe now will spend years more of their life under extreme fire weather conditions, and across the Mediterranean that burden is especially heavy,\u201d says Rosa Pietroiusti, lead author of the study. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers define extreme fire weather as days when the fire weather index (FWI) exceeds the top five per cent of days for the country over 1985-2014.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\" id=\"abe-article-related-1\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Barcelona has a bold plan to protect its vulnerable coastline \u2013 and it could be prize-winning<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Huge wildfire in Valencia region burns 690 hectares after Spain\u2019s hottest summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The largest increases are projected in the Mediterranean, a region already hard-hit by wildfires. <\/p>\n<p>According to researchers, people born here in 2025 are projected to face up to 2.5 times the exposure to extreme fire weather of those born in 1950. This corresponds to more than five additional years of extreme fire weather over their lifetime \u2013 if climate change reaches 2.6\u00b0C of additional warmth by 2100. <\/p>\n<p>Portugal is the European country which has seen the highest proportion of its area burned in recent decades. Extreme fire weather days here are projected to more than double, from 14 days per year in 1950-1970 to 32 days per year by 2100 under current climate policies.<\/p>\n<p>It means that a child born in Portugal today is projected to spend about 6.5 years of their life under extreme fire weather conditions under current climate policies. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n    widget--size-fullwidth\n    widget--align-center\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__content\">\n<blockquote class=\"widget__quote\"><p><span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Young people have done the least to cause climate change, yet they will live with its consequences for the longest.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite class=\"widget__author\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n                        Rosa Pietroiusti\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n                        PhD researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel\n                    <\/div>\n<p><\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Each additional degree of global warming by the end of the century adds around 272 days of extreme fire weather to the life of a Portuguese child born in 2025, researchers add.<\/p>\n<p>Pietroiusti argues that this is why youth-led climate justice movements and legal initiatives are starting to demand more ambitious climate action from governments and companies, so that the \u201cworst impacts of future climate-related hazards in their future can be avoided\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>How to protect future Europeans from extreme fire weather<\/h2>\n<p>The study found that rapidly cutting the use of fossil fuels would reduce exposure to dangerous fire weather in all regions. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, cutting emissions in line with the Paris Agreement target of 1.5\u00b0C by 2100 would decrease lifetime exposure for those born in 2025 by 1.3 years on average in Europe and more than two years for the most affected regions in Southern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Wim Thiery, senior author of the study, says as the costs of wind and solar continue to fall, hitting this goal is \u201cabsolutely feasible\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery fraction of a degree of warming we avoid translates directly into less fire weather over a child\u2019s lifetime, giving them a chance at a full and healthier life [and] an education,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s fewer lives cut cruelly short, fewer homes and dreams burned by the flames and fewer people traumatised by injury and grief. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the UN warned that it is no longer possible to keep global warming below the 1\u00b05C threshold \u2013 projecting a best-case 1\u00b08C of warming and over 2\u00b0C in some scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOvershoot, peak and decline\u201d is now our best bet, the report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) adds.<\/p>\n<p>The transition to clean energy has been identified as a key part of keeping the overshoot as \u201csmall and short as possible\u201d. 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class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Scientists discover new wild cat species for first time in a century<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"abe-2927182-pos5-mostViewed\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-3 m-modeDesktop-3 m-modeXL-3 the-media-object--has-related the-media-object--no-label\" data-nid=\"2927182\" data-cid=\"9920466\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Climate Week warns of challenges in delivering the energy transition<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articleBody\" data-key=\"articleBody\">Today\u2019s babies and infants will suffer an extra three years of \u201cextreme fire weather\u201d over their lives compared to grandparents unless emissions are cut, a new study warns.\u00a0Europe is warming more than twice as fast as the global average, paving the way for more bouts of extreme weather. Following back-to-back heatwaves that scorched the continent, much of Europe was struck by long periods of drought this year.This created ideal conditions for deadly wildfires that ripped through Spain, France and Greece, burning hundreds of thousands of hectares and triggering one of the biggest evacuation efforts since World War II.New research from Vrije Universiteit Brussel cautions that Europe\u2019s accelerated warming will have dire consequences for younger generations, despite them having done the least to cause climate change.European children to face more \u2018extreme fire weather\u2019The study, published in the science journal Environmental Research Letters, found that a child born in Europe in 2025 will live through more than three additional years of extreme fire weather compared with someone born in 1950 if we continue with current climate policies. That presents an 84 per cent increase for today\u2019s babies compared to their grandparents.\u00a0\u201cA child born in Europe now will spend years more of their life under extreme fire weather conditions, and across the Mediterranean that burden is especially heavy,\u201d says Rosa Pietroiusti, lead author of the study.\u00a0Researchers define extreme fire weather as days when the fire weather index (FWI) exceeds the top five per cent of days for the country over 1985-2014.The largest increases are projected in the Mediterranean, a region already hard-hit by wildfires.\u00a0According to researchers, people born here in 2025 are projected to face up to 2.5 times the exposure to extreme fire weather of those born in 1950. This corresponds to more than five additional years of extreme fire weather over their lifetime \u2013 if climate change reaches 2.6\u00b0C of additional warmth by 2100.\u00a0Portugal is the European country which has seen the highest proportion of its area burned in recent decades. Extreme fire weather days here are projected to more than double, from 14 days per year in 1950-1970 to 32 days per year by 2100 under current climate policies.It means that a child born in Portugal today is projected to spend about 6.5 years of their life under extreme fire weather conditions under current climate policies.\u00a0Each additional degree of global warming by the end of the century adds around 272 days of extreme fire weather to the life of a Portuguese child born in 2025, researchers add.Pietroiusti argues that this is why youth-led climate justice movements and legal initiatives are starting to demand more ambitious climate action from governments and companies, so that the \u201cworst impacts of future climate-related hazards in their future can be avoided\u201d.How to protect future Europeans from extreme fire weatherThe study found that rapidly cutting the use of fossil fuels would reduce exposure to dangerous fire weather in all regions.\u00a0In fact, cutting emissions in line with the Paris Agreement target of 1.5\u00b0C by 2100 would decrease lifetime exposure for those born in 2025 by 1.3 years on average in Europe and more than two years for the most affected regions in Southern Europe.Wim Thiery, senior author of the study, says as the costs of wind and solar continue to fall, hitting this goal is \u201cabsolutely feasible\u201d.\u00a0\u201cEvery fraction of a degree of warming we avoid translates directly into less fire weather over a child\u2019s lifetime, giving them a chance at a full and healthier life [and] an education,\u201d he adds.\u201cThat\u2019s fewer lives cut cruelly short, fewer homes and dreams burned by the flames and fewer people traumatised by injury and grief.\u00a0Earlier this month, the UN warned that it is no longer possible to keep global warming below the 1\u00b05C threshold \u2013 projecting a best-case 1\u00b08C of warming and over 2\u00b0C in some scenarios.\u201cOvershoot, peak and decline\u201d is now our best bet, the report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) adds.The transition to clean energy has been identified as a key part of keeping the overshoot as \u201csmall and short as possible\u201d. 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