Edie: The European Commission (EC) has drawn up a white paper detailing how it intends to assist member nations in coping with the effects of climate change. While some hope that the major repercussions of environmental damage can be avoided, the EC has constructed a plan to prepare the continent for its effects. The body pointed to new evidence that suggests the phenomenon could hit harder and faster than was originally predicted in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s …