UK HEATWAVES MAY HAVE COST ECONOMY £4.4BN IN LOST OUTPUT SO FAR THIS YEAR, ANALYSIS FINDS

Verdant thinktank says cost could top £25bn a year by 2030 and calls for maximum temperature for working and urban redesign to cool down cities Repeated debilitating heatwaves this summer are likely to have cost the UK… Green thinktank Verdant had suggested June’s unseasonally hot weather had an economic cost of £2.36bn.

The Guardian reports that verdant thinktank says cost could top £25bn a year by 2030 and calls for maximum temperature for working and urban redesign to cool down cities Repeated debilitating heatwaves this summer are likely to have cost the UK…

The report adds: Green thinktank Verdant had suggested June’s unseasonally hot weather had an economic cost of £2.36bn.

Updating its assessment to include last month’s high temperatures, it finds a £4.4bn hit to output.

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