If nothing is done to stop it, 90,000 Europeans will die each year from heat waves by the end of the century, the European Environment Agency (EEA) warned on Monday.
“Without adaptation measures, and in a global warming scenario of three degrees Celsius by 2100, 90,000 Europeans could die each year from heat waves,” the agency highlights.
“With a warming of 1.5ºC that the Paris Agreement seeks, this figure is reduced to 30,000 deaths per year,” he stressed, based on a study published in 2020.
Between 1980 and 2020, around 129,000 Europeans died from heat, with a sharp acceleration in the most recent period.
On Monday, the World Health Organization’s representation in Europe announced that at least 15,000 deaths in Europe were directly related to the 2022 heat waves.
Source: TSF
