Climate change causing rise in global disasters
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Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years, the United Nations said yesterday.
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said 7,348 major disaster events had occurred between 2000 and 2019, claiming 1.2 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people and costing the global economy about US$2.97 trillion.
The figure far outstrips the 4,212 major natural disasters recorded between 1980 and 1999, the UN office said in a new report entitled 鈥淭he Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019.鈥
The sharp increase was largely attributable to a rise in climate-related disasters, including extreme weather events like floods, droughts and storms. Extreme heat is proving especially deadly.
鈥淲e are wilfully destructive,鈥 UNDRR chief Mami Mizutori said in a virtual briefing. 鈥淭hat is the only conclusion one can come to when reviewing disaster events over the last 20 years.鈥
The report relied on statistics from the Emergency Events Database of all disasters that kill 10 or more people, affect 100 or more or result in a state of emergency.
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