Inequality causing 100,000 extra deaths a year from heat and cold in Europe

Meteo

Findings come after third-hottest April on record globally and amid fears of more brutal European summer weather Findings come after third-hottest April on record globally and amid fears of more brutal European summer weather Economic inequality adds more than 100,000 deaths to the vast toll from heat and cold in Europe each year, research has found. Cutting the level of inequality to that of Europe’s most equal region, as measured by the Gini index, would reduce temperature-related mortality