{"id":25968,"date":"2026-08-10T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=25968"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:29:21","slug":"europes-extreme-heat-could-wipe-out-eu-growth-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/08\/10\/europes-extreme-heat-could-wipe-out-eu-growth-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Extreme Heat Could Wipe Out EU Growth In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">The extreme heat and drought affecting large parts of Europe this summer could erase \u200bmuch of the economic growth expected across \u200cthe region, Dutch bank Triodos has said in a report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The bank, which specialises in financing environmentally and \u200bsocially sustainable projects, estimates that heat-related \u200bdisruption could shave around 1 percent off the European \u2060Union\u2019s gross domestic product, equivalent to roughly \u20ac180 \u200bbillion ($208 billion) in economic losses, drivwoen primarily by \u200bweaker labour productivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Labour productivity losses alone could cut EU GDP by around 0.6 percent, while agricultural output is expected \u200bto fall by 3 percent to 7 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">\u201cHigher food prices, constrained \u200bpower generation and higher electricity prices, and disruption to roads, \u200crail \u2060and inland waterways add to the damage,\u201d Triodos said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">France is expected to be the hardest hit, with recurring heatwaves reducing GDP by around 1.4 percent and \u200bpotentially tipping \u200bit into \u2060an annual contraction of 0.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Italy, Spain and Belgium also face substantial losses, \u200bwhile countries such as Poland, which \u200bexperienced \u2060fewer exceptionally hot days, are expected to be less affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extreme heat and drought affecting large parts of Europe this summer could erase \u200bmuch of the economic growth expected across \u200cthe region, Dutch bank Triodos has said in a report. The bank, which specialises in financing environmentally and \u200bsocially sustainable projects, estimates that heat-related \u200bdisruption could shave around 1 percent off the European \u2060Union\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25972,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25968\/revisions\/25972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}