24 January 2021
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Storms and their direct implications – precipitation, floods and landslides – were a major threat in 2019
Calls come as Global Climate Risk Index estimates climate change has taken 475, 000 lives and incurred $2.56tr of economic damages between 2000 and 2019
Calls for world leaders to collaborate to boost poorer countries' resilience to climate change have grown louder in the wake of new findings that underline the devastating impact storms, floods, heat waves,...
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