Climate Disasters

Asia-Pacific suffered losses of $73 billion from natural disasters last year, but only $9 billion of that amount was insured, according to German reinsurance company Munich Re. This makes the region one of the least insured in the world…
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Wildfires, cyclones, extreme rainfall, flooding and droughts across four continents ranked among the world’s 10 costliest climate disasters this year, causing combined economic losses of about $120 billion, according to a new report. The…
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Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality and this is "just the beginning", experts say, as international efforts to cut…
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Even as extreme weather and climate disasters are multiplying, half of the countries lack the advanced early warning systems needed to save lives, the United Nations warned Thursday. In a fresh report, the UN agencies for weather and for…
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