Heat waves and flooding could cost the European Union $50 billion in damage to buildings and crops as well as a loss of productivity, a new study found.
As climate change helps fuel more severe heat waves, the city is struggling between maintaining its architectural heritage and keeping apartments livable.
Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They’re barely keeping up with the risks.
A construction worker in Boston in July, when temperatures were in the 90s. Boston passed a law this summer requiring city projects to have a “heat illness prevention plan.”
As climate change helps fuel more severe heat waves, the city is struggling between maintaining its architectural heritage and keeping apartments livable.
Delivery riders are already some of the most vulnerable workers of booming gig economies. During successive heat waves this summer in Italy, it got complicated.
A new rule banning labor during the hottest hours this summer was meant to protect workers in and around Rome. Instead, it gutted the incomes of some delivery riders.
In Rome, couriers and food carriers have become frontline workers during heat waves. Glovo’s attempt to provide drivers with bonuses for working in the heat backfired in Italy last month.
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