Tag: cooling-policy

The UK is warming faster than the global average and is increasingly exposed to dangerous heat. More frequent and intense heatwaves are already causing thousands of excess deaths each year, while overheating affects a growing proportion of homes, workplaces and public buildings. As the Climate Change Committee’s Fourth Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk makes […]

LONDON: As the UK recovers from its latest record-breaking heatwave, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today published UK Cooling Policy in a Warming World, an urgent call to action for the Government to adopt a national cooling action plan addressing both climate adaptation and mitigation. With the UK warming faster than the global average, […]