Thailand Business News
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As fossil fuel emissions creep higher, warming up the planet, they are fuelling harsher, longer and more frequent heatwaves that can kill greater numbers of people.
- As heatwaves become longer and more frequent due to increasing global warming, there is a growing push for policies to protect those at risk.
- Many cities are exploring innovative ideas to keep people safe – from insurance policies that fund preparations ahead of heatwaves to planting trees to reduce humidity.
- Investing in renewable power will help ensure that soaring demand for cooling does not fuel even more climate change and deadlier heatwaves globally, experts say.
Cape Town and Buenos Aires are putting in place light-coloured and other cooling roofs on public housing, while Kuala Lumpur is looking at a “district cooling” system using renewable energy and natural water bodies to pump cooling water to homes.
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