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Fiona, what were the short-term fixes recommended in the report and how easy are they to implement?

From what you're saying, air conditioning is really at the moment at the heart of what could make things cooler and easier for us living here.

Isn't there an uncomfortable contradiction at the heart of that?

Because everything we've learned about living sustainably says that air con is bad.

It requires huge amounts of energy and contributes to climate change.

How does one square that?

But isn't there still a fundamental question of inequality here?

You know, in the same way that some people can't afford to heat their homes, some people won't be able to afford to cool them.

But given our struggling economy, you know, the current housing stock, the state of the schools, a government that is trying to scrimp and save, how could this practically be done, even if there was political will for it?

Coming up, in the hottest week in May we've ever seen, enter Tony Blair and his call to abandon net zero.

This week, Tony Blair, who entered the public imagination, made headlines with his grandstanding essay on what the country needs.

And one of the things he argues for is an end to aiming for net zero.

What do you make of that and the current conversation around it?

Fiona, do you think these heat waves are helping people re-engage with this urgent need to slow the climate crisis?

Do you think, are they helping environmental campaigns?

Or does that urgency seem to drop off as soon as the temperature goes down?

no better way to say it.

Fiona, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you.

That was The Guardian's environment editor, Fiona Harvey.