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Tackling India's heatwaves

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Every year, India faces blistering heatwaves. In many parts of the country the temperatures are soaring, making it difficult for people to go about their daily lives.

It’s the poor who are the most affected. They live in congested slums and have to step out in the heat to earn money. We explore what is being done, and what more could be done, to help them.

Presenter / producer: Davina Gupta Image: Woman in Chennai; Credit: EPA/Idrees Mohammed

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:06.1

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0:10.1

Let's go.

0:10.7

You are incredible.

0:12.3

Coming soon.

0:16.0

Our world is getting hotter.

0:19.4

Scientists have long understood that if left unchecked, climate change could wreck havoc

0:24.1

on human civilization.

0:25.9

This could be the summer when climate change denial finally goes the way of the dodo.

0:30.9

To be perfectly honest, what we learned today might just be the definition of helplessness.

0:35.6

The most recent warning by the World Meteorological Organization says,

0:40.4

we're almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years.

0:45.5

And the temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

0:53.1

Countries like the U.S., parts of Europe and Australia,

0:56.7

are already facing direct consequences of this.

1:00.0

A mass evacuation this morning along Australia's southeastern coast,

1:04.8

with bushfires looming.

1:06.8

100 billion Americans, nearly a third of the country,

1:12.9

are under a heat warning or advisory.

1:19.4

And currently 27% of Spanish territory is classified as in drought, emergency or drought alert.

1:24.7

Well, it's really getting hot and the government of India has already issued a health advisory.

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