Europe leads the world in the struggle to reduce emissions – and the rise of average global temperatures. According to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme, Europe is warming at double the average rate, 0.4°C per decade as opposed to 0.2°C. Only the Arctic is warming up faster. While the world is on the threshold of 1.5°C, in Europe the number “is around 2.4°C, and in the Arctic, it’s even higher at 3.3°C.”