UN: Climate Change has led to the doubling of natural disasters since 2000

To mark International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction which is celebrated on October 13, United Nations published a report showing how climate change has doubled natural disasters since year 2000. As per report, in years 2000 to 2019, re were a total of 7,348 major disasters that took lives of 1.23 million and affected 4.2 billion people. This furr resulted in a global ecomic loss of US$2.97 trillion. 

An increase in natural disasters recorded

rise is considered to be a sharp one when compared with previous 22 years from 1980 and 1999. A total of 4,212 disasters were recorded in between se years, claiming approximately 1.19 million lives and affecting 3.25 billion. Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters from University of Louvain in Belgium, Professor Debarati Guha-Sapir said, “This report covers first twenty years of this century and does t include biological hazards like COVID-19 but it clearly highlights level of human suffering and ecomic loss that result from failure to apt to climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If this level of growth in extreme wear events continues over next twenty years, future of mankind looks very bleak indeed”.

He ded, “We will have to live with consequences of existing levels of climate change for a long time to come and re are many practical measures that can be taken to reduce burden of disaster losses especially on low and middle-income countries that lack resources and are most exposed to ecomic losses on a scale that undermines ir efforts to ericate poverty and to provide good quality social services including health and education”. 

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As per report, past 20 years have seen a major surge in number of floods as re was an increase recorded from 1,389 to 3,254. Storms also recorded an increase from 1,457 to 2,034. According to iddrr.undrr.org, report records “major increases in or categories including drought, wildfires and extreme temperature events”. 

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report furr focuses on rise in geo-physical events like earthquakes and tsunamis. UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, said that people have become 'willfully destructive'. She ded that this is only conclusion one can draw after overviewing events from past 20 years. She termed COVID-19 as "latest proof" which shows how political and business leers should tune into world around m”.

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