»Die Zahl der Naturkatastrophen hat sich durch den Klimawandel massiv erhöht«
Bericht des United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 13.10.2020 (engl. Originalfassung)
A UN report published to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, confirms how extreme weather events have come to dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century.
In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people (many on more than one occasion) resulting in approximately US$2.97 trillion in global economic losses.