More than 11,000 disasters attributed to weather globally since 1970 caused more than 2 million deaths and some $3.64 trillion in losses
Environmental activists of Swiss Klimastreik Schweiz movement hold banners, one of them reads:"Crisis is crisis", in front of opera house in Zurich, Switzerland April 24, 2020.
It found that such disasters have increased fivefold during that period, driven largely by a heating planet, and warned the upward trend would continue. Floods have meanwhile killed nearly 59,000 over the past 50 years and extreme temperatures have killed close to 56,000, the report found. And while the 1970s and 1980 reported an average of 170 related deaths per day, the daily average in the 1990s fell to 90, and then to 40 in the 2010s.
Mami Mizutori, who heads the UN office for disaster risk reduction, also hailed the life-saving impact of the improved early warning systems.
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