{"id":462839,"date":"2026-08-21T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/21\/caldo-la-commissione-valuta-ulteriori-interventi-di-preparazione\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:23:25","slug":"european-commission-mulls-further-heatwave-preparedness-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/21\/european-commission-mulls-further-heatwave-preparedness-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission mulls &#8220;further heatwave preparedness actions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 &#8220;<strong>The Commission is exploring further heatwave preparedness actions to complement Member State efforts<\/strong>,&#8221; said the Commissioner for Crisis Management, <strong>Hadja Lahbib<\/strong>, in response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/E-10-2026-002780_IT.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parliamentary question<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/06\/24\/europe-in-the-grip-of-a-heatwave-climate-central-temperatures-five-times-more-likely-due-to-climate-change\/\">extreme heat<\/a> tabled by the Fratelli d\u2019Italia delegation in the European Parliament. She did not go into the details of the announcement, nor did she give any preview of the measures under consideration. Still, Lahbib pointed out that the European Commission is developing a new <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ec.europa.eu\/areas-action\/adaptation-and-resilience-climate-change\/european-climate-resilience-and-risk-management-integrated-framework_en?prefLang=it%20.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Integrated Framework for Climate Response and Risk Management in Europe<\/a> to help Member States prevent and prepare for the growing impacts of climate change. <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The package is expected to be adopted in the second half of 2026 \u2013 so very soon \u2013 and \u201cwill include a legal<br \/>\nproposal and a Communication, will prioritise heatwave risks,\u201d according to the Commissioner for Crisis Management. What is certain is that \u201cHeat stress is a top-ranked risk,<br \/>\nrequiring action,\u201d and the European Commission intends to act.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 &#8220;The Commission is exploring further heatwave preparedness actions to complement Member State efforts,&#8221; said the Commissioner for Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib, in response to a parliamentary question on extreme heat tabled by the Fratelli d\u2019Italia delegation in the European Parliament. She did not go into the details of the announcement, nor did she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":462819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30961,25774],"tags":[26050,30861,26640,29736,32895,33394],"class_list":["post-462839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salute-en","category-in-brief","tag-climate-en","tag-hadja-lahbib-en-2","tag-health","tag-broth-en","tag-lahbib","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462840,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462839\/revisions\/462840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}