Abstract
The month of July 2022 saw the UK reach a historic 40°C, leading to major disruptions in the provision of public services, as trains, hospitals and schools struggled to combat the high temperatures. With the possibility of this heat becoming a 'new normal' for large parts of the country, climate change advisers have highlighted the need to address the problem of overheating in UK homes - or face deadly consequences. The country has little regulation to prevent overheating in new buildings, even though as many as 4.6 million homes overheat every year in England alone, according to a recent survey by Loughborough University. If no action is taken to keep homes insulated from the heat, scientists fear that heat-related deaths could triple over the next 10 years. "By 2050, we will regularly have temperatures above 35°C in the south of the UK," says Chloe Brimicombe, a heat stress researcher at the University of Reading. "By the 2050s, between 5,000 and 7,000 people will die annually from extreme heat every year.".
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