This report explores the experiences of climate-related impacts, resilience actions taken at home, the perception of local actions implemented, and concerns about future impacts among a sample of Europeans. This report is based on an online survey conducted by Eurofound last year involving over 27,000 respondents from across 27 European countries. It presents their experiences of climate impacts, concerns about future impacts and resilience measures they took at home and those they are aware of where they live.

Four out of five respondents have already experienced at least one climate-related impact (heat, flooding, wildfires, water scarcity, wind, mosquito/tick bites) over the past five years. Added to this, over half of respondents were very or quite concerned about extremely high temperatures in the future and felt very or quite concerned about wildfires. One in five respondents did not have any of the household measures protecting against extreme weather that were listed in the survey (shading, air conditioning or ventilation, flood proofing, rainwater collection, extreme weather insurance). Over 38% of respondents stated that they could not afford to keep their home adequately cool in the summer.