EU Warns of Billion-Dollar Farm Losses as Heat and Drought Wreck Harvests

EU Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen says farmers are 'the first victims of climate change' as heat and drought cause poor harvests across the bloc, with losses expected to reach billions of euros. The statement confirms a pattern of climate-driven agricultural stress in Europe, but the exact scale of losses remains unquantified. This underscores the growing economic cost of climate change on food supply and prices.