In the last 19 years, more than 528,000 people have been killed and 2780 billion (850 trillion forints) damage has been caused worldwide by extreme weather events such as storms, hot flashes and floods – stands for this year’s climate protection index of the Germanwatch environmental organization, Bonn and Morocco.
The Global Climate Risk Index (CLRI) examined the period 1996 to 2015, when almost an eleven thousand extreme weather events occurred worldwide. The most affected areas are Honduras, Haiti and Myanmar due to Mitch, Nargis and Hurricane Sandy, who have been ravaged in 1998, 2008 and 2012 in these countries. Germanwatch called these giant storms an extraordinary catastrophe.
Last year, Mozambique and Malawi and the Caribbean Dominican Republic were the most affected countries. In the African countries at the turn of 2014 and 2015, monks have destroyed, and in the Dominican Republic in August 2015, the tropical storm called Erika was rampant. According to Germanwatch’s calculations, damages to Dominica account for 75 percent of gross national product (GDP). Hungary ranked the climate risk index in its ranking list at 109th place.
Germanwatch, based on the data of the reinsurance company around Munich Re, will release the index every year, this year’s Report 12. It calculates how seriously the countries are affected by storms, hot flashes, floods in terms of the number of fatalities and the direct economic loss taking into account the size and economic strength of the population.
Germanwatch emphasized that the index could be interpreted as an alert, and that weather extremes due to climate change can be prepared with adaptation and appropriate measures.
Experts argue that climate change can cause strong weather extremes in many places. For example, hot air takes up more water, resulting in more rainfall. However, the consequences may vary regionally. According to the index, in 2015 rain, floods and landslides caused the most damage worldwide.
The organization also pointed out that the poorer countries are particularly affected by extreme weather events. Of the ten most affected countries between 1996 and 2016, nine are low-income developing countries.
The Moroccan climate conference will, among other things, discuss the participating countries, how to support particularly vulnerable, poor countries, to cope with the consequences of climate change.
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