Ghana faces a deadly gap between rising heat and its slow-growing electricity supply – Report

The same poor countries projected to see so little increase in electricity also tend to be hotter than other countries, and the report identifies areas home to 676 million people trapped in this deadly combination of extreme heat and stagnant electricity supply.

How many of those lives can be saved will largely depend on access to electricity, especially the power needed to keep people cool during extreme heat, and the report finds that access to be dangerously unequal.“We've identified the places most at risk of seeing more people die from the heat and least able to power up ACs to save them, so people and governments can zero in on saving the greatest number of lives,” says Ashwin Rode, a fellow at the Climate Impact Lab and director of scientific research at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).