According to the Commission's own estimate, making Europe heatwave proof would cost €70 billion per year.
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According to the Commission's own estimate, making Europe heatwave proof would cost €70 billion per year.
The five biggest fossil fuel companies (TotalEnergies, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell) together generate roughly €8 trillion in revenue every year.
More than 200,000 people have died from heat in Europe over the past four years.
Temperatures exceeded 30°C this week in cities across Europe.
93 million people in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Over one million people in the EU are homeless, including 400,000 children.
Finland has the highest unemployment rate in Europe.
Work-related psychosocial risks are linked to 840,000 deaths per year globally according to ILO estimates.
People spend an average of 37 years of their lives at work.