According to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 90 percent of global disasters from 1995 to 2015 were weather-related, including floods, storms, heat waves, extreme cold and droughts. Those events have claimed an average of 30,000 lives per year and left 205 million people homeless annually. Such catastrophes cause between $250 billion and $300 billion in economic losses, the agency estimated.
“Weather and climate are major drivers of disaster risk and this report demonstrates that the world is paying a high price in lives lost,” said Ms. Margareta Wahlström, head of UNISDR, in a press release. “Economic losses are a major development challenge for many least developed countries battling climate change and poverty,” she continued.
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