The debate around air conditioning in Germany was reignited by a record-breaking heatwave which showed that widespread access to cooling is a matter of public health and safety.

Only one in five European homes has air conditioning, but record-breaking heat is driving soaring demand and reshaping the political debate, with even Green leaders backing…

As a heat wave bakes the continent, decades of architecture, the approach to discomfort and norms that kept ACs out of homes are starting to give way | World News