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Designing our homes for their local climate is vital for keeping us healthy and keeping energy costs down. But climate change threatens to leave our homes hotter and more dependent on air conditioning. Our latest research in partnership with Sweltering Cities finds that the energy needed to cool homes built today is set to sharply increase in the decades ahead. We found that even a new home in Brisbane would need twice as much energy for air conditioning by 2050; older homes without energy efficiency features like insulation would be worse off still. Our research used projected CSIRO climate data to model energy use and indoor temperatures in new and old homes from 2030 to 2090. NatHERS energy ratings currently use historical weather data from 1990-2015 – but unfortunately this is already out of date, with the nine years from 2015 the hottest ever recorded globally. Read the full report at https://lnkd.in/gs9U7kMW