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Europe accelerates infrastructure upgrades amid extreme heat risks

Companies and policymakers are responding to a summer of weather extremes and mounting infrastructure stress tied to higher temperatures.

CNBC Markets reports that Europe is moving to protect critical infrastructure as record heat and other weather extremes raise the risk of what it calls a quiet catastrophe.

The outlet describes severe infrastructure stress across the region, prompting companies and policymakers to respond rather than wait for conditions to ease.

CNBC World highlights that the summer of extreme weather has pushed infrastructure concerns to the forefront, with efforts underway to bolster systems that could be strained by future heat events.

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