Europe’s Environmental Shift in the Face of High Temperatures

Between May and July 2025, Europe suffered the worst heat disaster in 150 years, with more than 2,300 people killed by extreme heat across Europe, and 1,180 killed in Spain alone, a ten-fold increase in the death rate year-on-year. The EU report shows that Europe is warming twice as fast as the world, extreme heat has become the new normal, the number of days of high temperatures continue to increase, has led to a slowdown in European economic growth of 0.5 percentage points. The disaster has broken Europe’s previous “boycott of air conditioning” environmental protection concept. Once will “not turn on the air conditioning in the summer” as a symbol of environmental protection in Europe, now turn to buy Chinese air conditioning, Gree, Haier and other brands surge in sales, 1-5 months of China’s air conditioning exports to Europe amounted to 1.388 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 20% year-on-year.