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Lack of access to cooling to amplify heat deaths in Pakistan

By none@none.com (Zaki Abbas)

• 89pc of Pakistan’s population trapped in deadly combination of extreme heat, lack of access to air conditioning • Chicago University study says 377,000 lives projected to be lost each year by 2050, including 150,000 in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: As extreme heat events become more frequent, most poor countries lack the resources to power the cooling systems needed to adapt to rising temperatures, resulting in 10 times more deaths compared to their wealthier counterparts. According to a new study by...