Extreme heat emergency: More than a billion people facing heat risks without improved access to cooling

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Extreme heat emergency: More than a billion people facing heat risks without improved access to cooling

New report suggests investment in suppotrt of the UN Sustainable Development Goals could protect 450 million people by 2030

Rolling out cooling technologies to the 1.2 billion people most at risk from extreme heat incidents should be a global priority, according to the global Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) campaign....

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