BBC News
By Chris Vallance
Does your home become unbearable in hot weather? Increasingly a hot home is an overheating office too.
During the pandemic, up to 30% of people in the UK were working from home compared with 5% in 2019.
But it's hard to work if you live somewhere that becomes an oven in hot weather.
A recent government report into climate risks warned that unless homes can be kept cool in summer and warm in winter, health and productivity will suffer.
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image captionA development of new homes incorporating Passivhaus principles
According to some forecasts, air conditioning alone could contribute to as much as a 0.5C increase in global warming by 2100.