Study: Climate change has caused $600bn of insured weather losses this century

Stuart Stone
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Climate-attributed losses rose from 31 per cent to 38 per cent of total insured weather losses over the last decade, report calculates

Climate change has caused an estimated $600bn of insured weather losses globally over the last two decades, accounting for around a third of all insured weather losses since the turn of the century, a...

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