{"id":92214,"date":"2026-07-23T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92214"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:32:23","slug":"june-heatwave-cost-economy-more-than-1bn-as-government-urged-to-act-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/june-heatwave-cost-economy-more-than-1bn-as-government-urged-to-act-now\/","title":{"rendered":"June heatwave &#8216;cost economy more than \u00a31bn&#8217; as government urged to &#8216;act now&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA28ucN4.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"BRITAIN-WEATHER-HEATWAVE-CLIMATE\" width=\"672\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last month\u2019s heatwave led to 24 million lost hours of work and cost the UK\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">economy\u00a0<\/a>\u00a31.15 billion, research suggests.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/weather\/extreme-weather-events\/june-heatwave-cost-economy-more-than-1bn-as-government-urged-to-act-now\/ar-AA28uzoy?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a61c0bac9f14f52a5716510e9bbec0c&ei=24\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Last month\u2019s heatwave led to 24 million lost hours of work and cost the UK\u00a0economy\u00a0\u00a31.15 billion, research suggests.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/heat-beach.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92216,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92214\/revisions\/92216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}