The world should react with the same urgency to climate change as is to the coronavirus crisis, the Red Cross says, warning https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/blog/purdue-owl-research-paper/the-delivery-service-for-the-united-states.php global warming poses a greater threat than COVID In its report on global catastrophes since the s, the Geneva-based organisation pointed out that the world had been hit by more than disasters — many of them climate-related — since the World Health Organization declared the pandemic in March.
The frequency and intensity of extreme weather and climate-related events have been steadily climbing since the s, said the IFRC. In alone, Here world was hit by natural disasters — 77 percent of them climate or weather-related — killing some 24, people. Weather and climate-related disasters have killed more thanpeople over the past decade, most of them in poorer countries, with heatwaves and storms proving the most deadly, the report said. It also lamented that much of the money invested so far in climate change prevention and mitigation was not going to the developing countries who are most at risk.
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