At least 15,000 deaths in Europe are directly linked to the severe heat waves that affected the continent during the summer of 2022, according to a still incomplete estimate published on Monday by the WHO on the occasion of the COP27 on the climate.
This toll, which includes 4,500 deaths in Germany, nearly 4,000 in Spain, more than 3,200 in the United Kingdom and a thousand in Portugal, "is expected to increase, with several countries having reported excess heat-related deaths", indicates the director of the European branch of the WHO, Hans Kluge, in a press release.
This announcement comes after a month of August with extreme temperatures in France and the hottest October ever recorded since the start of the measurements.
World leaders are currently gathered in Egypt for the COP 27 on climate.
“Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish.
It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact or a Collective Suicide Pact,” UN boss Antonio Guterres launched on Monday to the greats of this world, gathered to discuss the fight against global warming.
