{"id":570419,"date":"2026-08-16T03:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570419\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T03:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:58:28","slug":"heatwave-costs-to-france-could-hit-nz30b-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570419\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave costs to France could hit NZ$30b, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">France&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/707952\/europe-recorded-10-000-excess-deaths-during-june-heatwave\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heatwaves<\/a> in recent months could cost \u20ac10 billion to \u20ac15 billion (NZ$19b-$28b) in direct and indirect costs, French environment minister Monique Barbut said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Barbut cited estimates from France&#8217;s national statistics agency, INSEE, and said the heatwave period was not over yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The 2022 drought resulted in \u20ac5.6b (NZ$10.6b) in direct and indirect costs, but this year&#8217;s heatwaves have been longer and more intense, with more extensive forest fires and a greater decline in agricultural production, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Barbut also said the continuing drought in the country has left more than 40,000 people facing water cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Economists and academics estimate Europe&#8217;s record heat and drought this summer could cost hundreds of billions of euros, as global-warming-driven extremes disrupt power, shipping and public health, while wildfires threaten to make this Europe&#8217;s worst season on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s heatwaves in recent months could cost \u20ac10 billion to \u20ac15 billion (NZ$19b-$28b) in direct and indirect costs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-570419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570419","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=570419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}