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Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970-2019)
September 11 , 2021
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- It was released by the UN’s world meteorological organization.
- The developed nations incurred the bulk of $3.6 trillion in economic losses because of severe weather events in past five decades.
- The High death tolls in poorer countries have been partly reduced by better evacuation.
- Three out of 10 world’s costliest disasters occurred in 2017 alone namely - hurricanes Harvey ($96.9bn), Maria ($69.4bn) and Irma ($58.2bn).
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