SciencePhoto: NDTV WorldExtreme Summer Heat Causes 50,000 Deaths, $19 Billion GDP Loss in Europe
Europe experienced a record 50,000 deaths due to extreme summer heat, the highest ever recorded, and a GDP loss of about 0.17%, or nearly €17 billion ($18.9 billion), from April to September. Studies from Imperial College London and Bloomberg Economics link two-thirds of these deaths to climate change and show the economic impact was 2.5 times the average loss over the past decade.
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