00:03Despite record breaking temperatures on the continent over the past week, the European Commission has declined to take a stance
00:10on the increasingly contentious debate over air conditioning.
00:14The Commission insisted it is not the role of the EU executive to dictate consumers' choices.
00:19Whether we have a position on air conditioning, pro or contra, not really, but we do tackle this as one
00:29policy area which relates to renovation of an energy efficiency of buildings and residential apartments as well as part of
00:39our housing strategy.
00:41About 20% of European households have AC units installed compared to 90% or more in the United States,
00:49Japan and South Korea.
00:51Most residential buildings and apartments in the European Union do not have air conditioning.
00:56It's not something that is traditionally inbuilt, especially given that much of our housing stock is actually quite old and
01:03aged.
01:05Critics say AC drives up electricity demand, strains power grids, releases hot air into the atmosphere and fails to tackle
01:14the underlying causes of the climate crisis.
01:17Advocates, by contrast, say it is an appropriate instrument to ensure livable conditions and maintain labour productivity amid rising temperatures.
01:30France has seen nearly a thousand more deaths recorded since the 24th of June as an extreme heat wave sweeps
01:38across the country.
01:40Funeral services say they are struggling to cope with the spike in mortality that they have seen over the past
01:4610 days.
01:48We are at about a number of deaths.
01:50In terms of PME, we do not do 15 families in two days.
01:54It is not possible, in general.
01:57We are on three or four families.
02:01So there, we are on two or three times on the situation.
02:06And we cannot respond immediately to the demands of the families,
02:11because we do not know where to lead the victims.
02:14According to Santé Public France, the death toll is likely to be revised upward,
02:20as some death certificates, particularly those for people who died at home or in nursing homes, have not been submitted
02:27electronically.
02:29Since last week, we have more and more requests.
02:33And since this weekend, our funeral is complete.
02:35We have no one place.
02:37And it is due to the canicule.
02:41We have proposed to the authorities to put what we call frigorific containers in front of our funeral.
02:50We are waiting for their agreement.
02:51In Paris, City Hall has announced the installation of two temporary storage units for bodies in municipal morgues,
02:59each with a capacity of 20 bodies.
03:10So we have seen a bunch of these crinots in the past.
03:15Perfect, that's perfect.
03:17Look at them.
03:18Beautiful.
03:19Dry land, arabe.
03:22Dry land.
03:24Very many of the species are long-lived and don't produce very many offsprings.
03:30So if something happens, they have a very little restitution availability.
03:39Another reason why deep sea ecosystems are considered vulnerable is that they need cold water.
03:47Most of the deep water is cold water.
03:50And climate change is changing that.
04:01Very many of the species in the deep sea are small invertebrate species, so not having an internal skeleton.
04:13And they very often have an outside skeleton, what we call an external skeleton, that is built from calcium somehow.
04:21And this is very difficult for them if the water becomes more acidic, as happens with ocean acidification, which is
04:31a second part of climate change as well.
04:33So the deep sea, even though it's far away from us, is already now suffering a lot of problems.
04:42Problems.
04:43Music.
04:46Music.
04:52Music.
04:53Music.
11:30Thank you,
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