Contrary to popular perception, Eastern Europe faces significant threats from the climate crisis, with several of the most serious risks already in evidence. Many of the region's countries are facing warmer temperatures, changing humidity, and more extreme weather conditions, droughts, floods, heat waves, windstorms, and forest fires. As it is the case worldwide, climate crisis is disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups, forcing them into climate migrations, deteriorating the work conditions and constantly changing the job and economic markets, creating a hostile environment for these groups. Vulnerability over the next 10 to 20 years is likely to be dominated by these socio-economic factors and legacy issues. Nevertheless, even countries and sectors that stand to benefit from climate change are poorly positioned to do so, while the next decade offers a window of opportunity for these actors in EE countries to make their development more resilient to climate change while reaping numerous co-benefits.