UN: Climate change means more weather disasters every year

In wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, U.N. wear ncy is warning that number of people who need international humanitarian help could rise 50% by 2030 compared to 108 million who needed it worldwide in 2018.

In a new report released with partners on Tuesday, World Meteorological ncy says more disasters attributed to wear are taking place each year. It said over 11,000 disasters have been attributed to wear, climate and phemena like tsunamis that are related to water over last 50 years — causing 2 million deaths and racking up $3.6 trillion worth of ecomic costs.

In one hopeful development over that period, aver number of deaths from each separate wear disaster per year has dropped by one-third, even as number of such events and ecomic costs from m have both surged.

2020 State of Climate Services report, compiled by 16 international ncies and financing institutions, calls on governments to put more money into early-warning systems that can improve countries’ ability to prepare for, respond to and mitigate impact of such natural disasters.

“While COVID-19 generated a large international health and ecomic crisis from which it will take years to recover, it is crucial to remember that climate change will continue to pose an on-going and increasing threat to human lives, ecosystems, ecomies and societies for centuries to come,“ said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.

“Recovery from COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity to move forward along a more sustainable path towards resilience and adaptation in light of anthropogenic climate change,” he said.

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