'Eye-watering' costs of 2021's climate-related storms and floods revealed
Christian Aid highlighted 15 of the worst extreme events around the world this year, including 10 disasters which each cost £1.1 billion or more.
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Christian Aid highlighted 15 of the worst extreme events around the world this year, including 10 disasters which each cost £1.1 billion or more.
Christian Aid highlighted 15 of the worst extreme events around the world this year, including 10 disasters which each cost £1.1 billion or more.
By Beh Lih Yi KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - 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. Floods, storms and drought also killed and displaced millions of people across some of the world's poorest regions, highlighting the rising injustice of impacts as the planet warms, humanitarian charity Christian Aid said in a report.
Christian Aid highlighted 15 of the worst extreme events around the world this year, including 10 disasters which each cost £1.1 billion or more.
Christian Aid highlighted 15 of the worst extreme events around the world this year, including 10 disasters which each cost £1.1 billion or more.