Europe is a world leader in the fight against climate change but must do more to protect its environment and improve its resilience against global warming, the European Union's environment agency warned on Monday. "Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe's environment is not good," the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in a statement as it presented its latest report on the issue. The impacts of climate change represent a growing challenge, it stressed. "Human survival depends on high quality nature, particularly when it comes to adaptation to climate change," Catherine Ganzleben, head of the EEA's Sustainable and Fair Transitions unit, told reporters at a briefing. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementPreventing pollution reduces the number of deaths and illnesses and their harmful consequences.