The UK experienced five heatwave periods over the summer of 2022, with a wide range of impacts including more excess heat-related deaths than in previous years and especially severe health impacts for at-risk groups such as the elderly and young children.
Accelerating climate change and loss of biodiversity have created a global health emergency.1
The record heatwave in France in 2003 was responsible for over 14 000 excess deaths. France has experienced higher temperatures since then, but its 2004 national heat wave plan meant that mortality was reduced by adaptations including better warning messages, heat reflective surfaces, housing insulation, safe cooling spaces, and shade trees in parks.
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