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Warming by 3°C would expose 300 million Europeans to deadly heat waves every year, according to Commission

Brussels, 15/05/2020 (Agence Europe)

In a global warming scenario of 3°C above pre-industrial levels and without adaptation measures, nearly 300 million EU and UK citizens will be exposed to deadly heat waves each year, resulting in a 30-fold increase in the number of deaths due to this phenomenon, according to a new report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), published on Thursday 14 May.

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