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Terrible floods in India cost $10 billion loss: UK charity report Agencies December 28, 2020 London, Dec 28: Fifteen extreme weather events, influenced by climate change, were identified globally this year, including the terrible floods that struck India cost $10 billion, killing 2,000, a UK charity report said on Monday. The London-based Christian Aid's report, 'Counting the cost 2020: A year of climate breakdown', said 10 of those events cost $1.5 billion or more. The US was hit by the highest costs due to the record-breaking hurricane season and fires. Most of these estimates are based onl...

The same disasters claimed at least 3,500 lives and displaced more than 13.5 million people. From Australia’s out-of-control wildfires in January to a record number of Atlantic hurricanes through November, the true cost of the year’s climate-enhanced calamities was in fact far higher because most losses were uninsured. Not surprisingly, the burden fell disproportionately on poor nations, according to the annual tally from global NGO Christian Aid, entitled “Count the cost of 2020: a year of climate breakdown”. Only four per cent of economic losses from climate-impacted extreme events ...

Cyclone Amphan, which had struck south Bengal on May 20, accounts for “the biggest displacement” in the world caused by a natural calamity this year, according to a report released in the UK on Sunday. Amphan, the report says, also qualifies as the costliest tropical cyclone of the year. The report, titled Counting the Cost 2020: A Year of Climate Breakdown, is prepared by Christian Aid, a London-headquartered relief and development agency.  “Cyclone Amphan which affected countries in the Bay of Bengal, including India ... displaced 4.9 million people, accounting for the biggest displ...

Campaigners call for support for climate-vulnerable countries Simon Holliday The Revd Sue Parfitt, a member of Christian Climate Action, was arrested last Friday at an Extinction Rebellion roadblock outside a Ministry of Defence facility near Bristol. The protest was to highlight greenhouse-gas emissions from the military and was timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement. Ms Parfitt, who is 77, declined to accept a caution and was charged with Obstruction of the Highway. She will appear in court in 2021 The Revd Sue Parfitt, a member of Christian Clim...

Countries are putting forward more ambitious plans to cut emissions ahead of an online UN summit aimed at tackling the climate crisis.