A study by Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine estimates that heat during summer 2026 was linked to 50,391 deaths across 854 cities in 30 European countries, 71% higher than in 2022 and well above the 28,462 recorded during the 2003 heatwave. About 2/3 of these deaths would not have occurred without human-caused climate change. Western Europe had its hottest summer on record, with average temperatures nearly 3 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average. According to Bloomberg Economics, extreme heat cut about 0.17% from EU GDP between April and September 2026, equal to nearly 17 billion euros and 2.5 times the average loss for the same period over the previous decade. In the second quarter alone, GDP was estimated to be 0.2 percentage points lower in France, 0.1% lower in Germany and 0.05% lower in Spain due to high temperatures.
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