Counting the cost 2020: A year of climate breakdown (December 2020)
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Report identifies ten extreme events, influenced by climate change, that each caused $1.5 billion damage or more.
Storm Ciara which struck UK and Europe in February cost $2.7 billion and killed 14 people.
Floods, windstorms, tropical cyclones and fires killed thousands of people across the globe.
A new report by Christian Aid,
Ten of those events cost $1.5 billion or more, with nine of them causing damage worth at least $5 billion. Most of these estimates are based only on insured losses, meaning the true financial costs are likely to be higher.
Among them is Storm Ciara which struck the UK, Ireland and other European countries in February costing $2.7 billion and killing 14. The UK s Environment Agency issued 251 flood warnings.
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A 1,000km stretch of the northern NSW and Queensland coastline has been battered by storms over the past few days.
The storms have been so severe that they’ve dramatically eroded iconic beaches in Bryon Bay.
This is what #coastalerosion looks like. Standing at the edge of Clarke s Beach, #ByronBay: beach almost gone, trees fallen as the ground that holds them is washed away. Now what we expected on our summer holiday. pic.twitter.com/bKYrFsKnxg rod cuthbert (@rodcu) December 13, 2020
NSW emergency services have received over 700 calls for help since Sunday and rescued half a dozen people stranded in floodwaters.