{"id":10244,"date":"2020-07-07T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","slug":"air-conditioners-contribute-to-energy-poverty-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/07\/07\/air-conditioners-contribute-to-energy-poverty-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Conditioners Contribute to &#8216;Energy Poverty,&#8217; New Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The effects of climate change may more far-reaching than you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotter temperatures have been linked to a rise in energy poverty, with more people struggling to meet their energy bills from their household income, according to a new study published on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0264999319308168?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ScienceDirect<\/a>\u00a0by researchers from Italy&#8217;s Ca&#8217; Foscari University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The analysis looks at eight countries \u2013 Australia, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland \u2013 and investigates how households respond to excess heat. They have found an uptick on the purchasing and use of air conditioners, which has led to a greater consumption of electricity, and a greater proportion of income being spent on energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Households spend between 35% and 42% more on electricity when they adopt air conditioning, the study says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As temperatures increase around the world, cooling is emerging as a new, basic need \u2013 even in countries that traditionally have not previously required such appliances. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/air-conditioner-2646349178.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of climate change may more far-reaching than you think. Hotter temperatures have been linked to a rise in energy poverty, with more people struggling to meet their energy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}