Temperature controls - Photo by HUUM on Unsplash

With days growing hotter, air conditioning is playing an ever-growing role in how people cope with the heat. In EU households, energy consumption for cooling has steadily increased, reaching 80.4 thousand terajoules (TJ) in 2024.

Europe's innovation performance still strong
Despite recent crises, EU Member States and their regions have kept improving their innovation performance in 2022, according to the 2023 European Innovation Scoreboard…