{"id":497292,"date":"2026-06-26T22:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:32:34","slug":"why-europes-heat-waves-are-still-so-deadly-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497292\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Europe\u2019s heat waves are still so deadly \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe built our cities for the climate from before,\u201d said Jeroen Kluck, a professor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences researching climate resilience in cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have done simulations that showed that more and more houses will get too hot even if we provide some [sun] screening and ventilation,\u201d he added. \u201cSomewhere in the future, those houses might need active cooling.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While air-conditioning is on the rise, it remains uncommon in Europe. Only about one-fifth of European households have AC installed, compared to 90 percent in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s high heat mortality is down to \u201ca combination of factors, but definitely, air-conditioning is a life-saving facility,\u201d said Monasso. \u201cIn Europe, there\u2019s much less coverage, so that is a serious issue and it would make a difference if that\u2019s better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not only homes either: Factories, schools, trains and even hospitals lack sufficient cooling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heat deaths in the workplace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etuc.org\/en\/pressrelease\/heat-deaths-work-40-eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">are up 42 percent<\/a> in the EU since 2000, prompting the European Trade Union Confederation to call on Brussels to enshrine mandatory cooling breaks and maximum working temperatures in labor legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe built our cities for the climate from before,\u201d said Jeroen Kluck, a professor at the Amsterdam University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[23299,12683,6799,3071,25923,390,537,3105,40712,273,1221,248686,25926,3274,3678,111,139,69,1675,640,1518,12879,147,1321,2025,1430],"class_list":["post-497292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-belgium","tag-buildings","tag-cars","tag-cities","tag-climate-adaptation","tag-climate-change","tag-crisis","tag-data","tag-demographics","tag-environment","tag-france","tag-hans-kluge","tag-heat-wave","tag-hospitals","tag-labor","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-public-health","tag-regulation","tag-research","tag-resilience","tag-science","tag-services","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}