EconomyHow climate change’s hard reality hit Europe’s economy this summer

Europe’s sweltering heatwaves this summer have made climate change’s consequences harder to dismiss as a problem for future generations. They have brought attention to costly economic effects that can alter people’s lives. The impacts are presented as already having arrived, rather than as a distant risk. The extreme heat has therefore made the economic reality of climate change immediate for Europe.

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