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Disasters: UN report shows climate change causing ‘dramatic rise’ in economic losses

Apr 29, 2022

Disasters: UN report shows climate change causing ‘dramatic rise’ in economic losses
© UNICEF/Arimacs Wilander - View of damaged cars and houses at Balaroa National Park, West Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia after the earthquake and tsunami that struck there on September 28, 2018.

Climate-related and geophysical disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis have killed 1.3 million people over the last 20 years and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless or in need of emergency assistance, UN experts said on Wednesday.


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