Satellite image of Europe In order to avoid the catastrophic effects of runaway climate change — rising seas, super-storms, famine and war — the world needs to invest some $2.4 trillion a year through 2035 in order to cut fossil fuel emissions, according to scientists. (Image: Shutterstock)

Climate change is picking up pace in Europe, thrusting farmers and power generators onto the front lines of a battle with nature that threatens to upend the lives of the half billion people who occupy the world's biggest trading bloc.

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