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Nearly 61.7 mn affected due to extreme weather events in 2018: UN report

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Nearly 61.7 mn affected due to extreme weather events in 2018: UN report

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  1. Nearly 61.7 mn affected due to extreme weather events in 2018: UN report The UN official said that time is running out for limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Centigrade or 2 degrees Centigrade Earthquake and Tsunami represented a large portion of the 10,373 lives lost in a fiascos a year ago, while outrageous climate occasions represented the vast majority of 61.7 million individuals influenced by regular perils, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) said on Thursday. There were 281 extraordinary climate occasions recorded by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in its EM-DAT (International Disaster Database), the UNISDR said at an UN question and answer session. Additionally READ: Global catastrophic events unleash $160 bn harm in 2018; most exceedingly bad misfortunes in US

  2. "No piece of the globe was saved from the effect of extraordinary climate occasions a year ago," said Mami Mizutori, UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Xinhua news organization revealed. Mizutori said that surges, dry seasons, tempests, and out of control fires influenced 57.3 million individuals, underlining yet again that "on the off chance that we need to lessen fiasco misfortunes, we should enhance how we oversee debacle hazard." The nation most influenced by debacles was India, where there were 23.9 million individuals hit, trailed by the Philippines with practically 6.5 million individuals affected, and afterward China with 6.4 million influenced. Read More

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