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A mockup of a planet earth is displayed at the Rheinaue park during the COP23 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. - AFP JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo called for stronger global commitments to tackle climate change this week, but environmentalists are not buying it. They complain that Indonesia’s emissions-reduction target has not budged and that national policies are still being pursued at the expense of the environment. In a prerecorded statement aired at the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) hosted by the Netherlands on Tuesday (...

Puerto Rico, Myanmar and Haiti were among the countries worst-affected by extreme weather events. Jan 26, 2021 13:55:58 IST Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change. The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as storms, flooding and heatwaves is overwhelmingly borne by developing countries. At the start of the Climate Adaptation Summit, held virtually this year due to the pandemic, the think tank Germanwatch calculated...

Over 4.8 lakh people died due to extreme weather events this century: Analysis Firstpost 26-01-2021 Agence France-Presse © Provided by Firstpost Over 4.8 lakh people died due to extreme weather events this century: Analysis Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change. The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as storms, flooding and heatwaves is overwhelmingly borne by developing countries. At the st...

The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as storms, flooding and heatwaves is overwhelmingly borne by developing countries.

The Straits Times The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as storms is overwhelmingly borne by developing countries.PHOTO: AFP PublishedJan 26, 2021, 5:00 am SGT https://str.sg/JKYD They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. including the ST News Tablet worth...