In response to the UK Health Security Agency announcing thousands of additional excess deaths in England during this summer’s heatwaves[1], Georgia Whitaker, climate campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said:

“Climate change is already shortening the lives of thousands of people in England, and this year’s unusually high rate of heat-induced deaths will not remain unusual for long unless we speed up decarbonisation dramatically and insulate our homes to keep them cooler in summer as well as warmer in winter. But this government seem to be heading in the opposite direction, and their shambles of an energy policy will have a heavy cost in the lives of our grandparents – another bill from the fossil fuel companies which this government seem determined to keep paying in full.”