Climate change is having a terrible impact on nature. As a result, 2 million people have died in the last 50 years due to various disasters related to climate change. More than 90 percent of them are from developing countries. Also during this time the world suffered a financial loss of 4.3 trillion US dollars.
According to the statistics of the United Nations Meteorological Organization WMO, from 1970 to 2021, 11 thousand 778 meteorological disasters occurred in the world. The number of disasters also increased during that period.
WMO chief Petteri Talas said weather, climate and water-related disasters hit the most vulnerable communities. Cyclone Mokha is an example of this. Cyclone Mokha hit Myanmar and Bangladesh last week.
He said, this strong cyclone has wreaked havoc. As a result, the poor are the most affected.
However, the WMO said, improved early warning systems and integrated disaster management have significantly reduced the number of deaths in these incidents.
Earlier, in a report on disaster-related deaths and losses in 2021, the organization said that between 1970 and the beginning of 2019, more than 50,000 people died worldwide every year. However, after the beginning of the 2010s, the annual death rate fell below 20,000.
In the new report, WMO says that 22,608 people died worldwide in the two years from 2020 to 2021.
The WMO has warned that the financial loss of disasters caused by climate change is increasing even as the death rate is decreasing. In 2019, the agency reported that the financial loss per day in the early 1970s was 49 million US dollars, but in the last decade it was 383 million US dollars per day. Source: Al Jazeera
