(Bloomberg) Ten of this year’s most destructive weather events cost a combined $170 billion in damages, according to a new study.
Hurricane Ida, a tropical storm that pummeled much of the eastern U.S. with lashing rain in August, killed at least 95 people and cost the economy $65 billion.
The financial and human costs of climate change are expected to keep soaring unless governments step up efforts to rein in global warming, the report warns
KUALA LUMPUR: From deadly Hurricane Ida in the United States to devastating floods in China and Europe, climate change-fuelled disasters have cost the world tens of billions of dollars in 2021, with both the poor and the rich hit hard, researchers said on Monday.