Anuradha Varanasi is a freelance science writer. She writes on the intersection of health/medicine, racial disparities, and climate change. She earned an MA in Science Journalism from Columbia University in New York City.
the heatwave across the country during which temperatures have reached 40 degrees Celsius. / AFP PHOTO / Eleftherios Elis In 2023, more than 47,000 excess heat-related deaths took place across 35 countries in Europe, and Greece and Bulgaria had the highest mortality rates due to relentless heatwaves, according to a recent study. The researchers highlighted that this number might underestimate the actual number of people who lost their lives to heatwaves during 2023.
Almost half of all days in 2023 recorded temperatures that exceeded the global average surface warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial temperatures. In 2016, the Paris Agreement, which was an international treaty on climate change established that crossing the 1.5 °C threshold would risk an increased occurrence of extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts, floods, and hurricanes.
“The highest overall heat-related mortality rates were found in Southern Europe, especially in Greece , Bulgaria , Italy , Spain , Cyprus and Portugal ,” they noted. “We note that these countries have already been shown to have an elevated vulnerability to heat in previous years and periods.”
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