2023年6月26日 · The World Bank Group has announced a comprehensive toolkit to support countries in responding to natural disasters and other crises. The toolkit includes a range of measures, such as pausing debt repayments, redirecting financing, and linking crisis preparedness and financing.

The infographic highlights the high frequency of storms and floods – with the top two responsible for over 70% of the world’s natural disasters. The report also emphasises the increase in weather-related natural disasters across the period. Between 2005 and 2014, there were an average of 335 such natural disasters per year.

2023年11月29日 · Extreme weather events and climate-related disasters have caused significant economic losses, reaching nearly $1.5 trillion in the decade to 2019. The international system has struggled to make the required progress on climate change, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2023.

2020年9月3日 · Reinsurer MunichRe registered 820 natural disasters causing insured losses in 2019. This number has tripled from thirty years ago and climate change is a factor in causing this higher rate of natural disasters. The most expensive natural disasters to date include the Tohoku earthquake ($210 billion) and Hurrican Katrina ($61 billion).

2015年12月16日 · Natural disasters caused a total of $1.5 trillion in damage worldwide between 2003 and 2013, according to a study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which finds they caused more than 1.1 million deaths and affected the lives of more than two billion people.

2020年10月14日 · Traditional gender roles often re-emerge after natural disasters, researchers have found China (577) and the United States (467) recorded the highest number of disaster events from 2000 to 2019, followed by India (321), the Philippines (304) and Indonesia (278), the U.N. said in a report issued the day before the International Day for Disaster ...

2015年2月11日 · The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no …

2024年2月14日 · The risks of natural disasters are not confined to specific cities, regions or countries. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 warns that extreme weather events are the greatest risk facing the world in the next decade. With the exacerbation and increased frequency of natural disasters due to climate change, there is an urgent ...

2014年11月28日 · The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no …

2023年1月13日 · The World Bank reports that only one-tenth of the world's greenhouse gases are emitted by 74 lowest income countries, but they will be most affected by the effects of climate change. Compared to the 1980s, they have already experienced approximately eight times as many natural disasters in the past 10 years. By 2050, unchecked climate change ...