# How climate change’s hard reality hit Europe’s economy this summer

https://mins.news/en/item/17795

- Reuters, 2026-08-10 05:15 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-hard-reality-climate-change-hit-europes-economy-this-summer-2026-08-10/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a795e61dd72780001fe7c9e

> 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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