Archive · 20 Nov 2025
EU Launches Service to Gauge Climate Change's Role in Extreme Weather
The EU is starting a new service to figure out how much climate change is causing extreme weather events like heatwaves and heavy rain.
This will help governments make decisions about climate change, insurance companies understand risks, and people sue for climate damage.
The service will publish results quickly after an event happens.
EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service starts a new service to measure climate change's role in extreme weather events.
The service will use attribution science to compare current weather patterns with simulations of a world without human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.
Results will be published within a week of an extreme weather event, with two assessments per month.
The service aims to help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk assessments, and provide evidence for lawsuits.
It will partner with national weather services and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.
- Who
- EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service
- What
- Launched a service to measure climate change's role in extreme weather events
- When
- Results will be published by the end of 2023, with two assessments per month
- Where
- EU member countries and the UK
- Why
- To help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk assessments, and provide evidence for lawsuits
Climate Scientists and Lawyers
Some Independent Scientists and Legal Experts
Attribution Science
Climate Scientists and Lawyers
Welcome the service's plans to partner with national weather services and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.
Some Independent Scientists and Legal Experts
Cheered the EU move and believe the more information available about attribution science, the easier it will be for the most impacted to bring claims to courts.
- Funding
- About 2.5 million euros over three years
- Publication Timeframe
- Within a week of an extreme weather event
- Assessments per Month
- Two
- Partners
- National weather services of EU members, UK Met, and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre