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Air conditioning creates political divide as France records hottest day
Key takeaways
- With temperatures soaring, France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about one possible answer to climate change: air-con.
- Currently the country has a low take-up, with only 25% of households equipped with an air-con unit.
- French hospitals and schools are also only rarely equipped.
Why this matters: a developing story that could shape the day's news cycle.
AFP via Getty Images Image caption, Only about 25% of homes in France have an air-con unit
With temperatures soaring, France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about one possible answer to climate change: air-con.
This week debate about la clim' (climatisation) has once again burst out, with Marine Le Pen on the populist right urging a mass subsidised roll-out and traditionally hostile Greens conceding that some air-conditioning may now be inevitable.
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