Increasingly frequent and intense disasters have killed or affected more people in the last five years than in the previous five-year period, and could push an additional 100-million people into poverty by 2030.
Disasters have cost an average of about $170 billion each year in the last decade but developing nations and their poorest people suffering disproportionately
The world is set to face 1.5 disasters a day 560 a year by 2030 as humans heat up the climate and ignore the risk, pushing millions more people into poverty, the organization has said.
The world is set to face 1.5 disasters a day 560 a year by 2030, as humans put themselves on a “spiral of self-destruction” by heating up the climate and ignoring risk, pushing millions more people into poverty, the UN said yesterday.
In the past two decades, between 350 and 500 medium-sized to major disasters were recorded annually, but governments are “fundamentally” underestimating their true impact on lives and livelihoods, a biennial UN report on disasters said.
“Raising the alarm by speaking the truth is not only necessary, but crucial,” said Mami Mizutori, head of the UN Office for Disaster