{"id":32675,"date":"2018-10-29T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32675"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:26:13","slug":"natural-disasters-cost-india-80-billion-in-20-years-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/natural-disasters-cost-india-80-billion-in-20-years-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural disasters cost India $80 billion in 20 years: UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/natural-disasters-cost-india-80-billion-in-20-years-un-report\/articleshow\/66156074.cms\"><strong>Natural disasters cost India $80 billion in 20 years: UN report <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) recently released annual report highlighting India\u2019s losses owing to various natural disasters.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The study was jointly conducted by UNISDR and Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and released before October 13, the International Day for Disaster Reduction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Findings of the UNISDR report:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Globally, disaster losses during the 20-year period of 1998 to 2017 have been estimated at $3 trillion. These losses have increased by more than 120% in the last 20 years compared to the preceding two decades (1978-1997).<\/li>\n<li>The climate-related disaster losses, globally have gone up by more than 151%.<\/li>\n<li>In the period 1998-2017(two decades), disaster-hit countries reported direct economic losses of more than $2 billion of which climate-related disasters accounted for 77% of the total.<\/li>\n<li>This compares with total reported losses for the period 1978-1997((two decades) of more than $1 billion of which climate-related disasters accounted for 68%, of the total economic losses.<\/li>\n<li>SO in the last 20 years, climate-related disasters killed 1.3 million people and left 4.4 billion injured and homeless.<\/li>\n<li>The three European countries are in the top 10 nations having suffered maximum economic losses on account of these climate change disasters e., France ($48 billion), Germany ($58 billion) and Italy ($57 billion).<\/li>\n<li>UN report also reported that data related to disaster loss is not available for 87% of disasters in low-income countries.<\/li>\n<li>While the majority of fatalities were due to geophysical events, mostly earthquakes and tsunamis, 91% of all disasters were caused by floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4. India\u2019s case:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India has been ranked among world&#8217;s top five countries in absolute economic losses<\/li>\n<li>The natural disasters in India have cost the nation $80 billion in losses during the 20-year period from 1998 to 2017.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26671\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/about...-1.jpg?resize=630%2C155&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/about...-1.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/about...-1.jpg?resize=150%2C37&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/about...-1.jpg?resize=300%2C74&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5. Impact of disasters: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The economic losses from extreme weather events are unsustainable and a major brake on eradicating poverty in hazard-exposed parts of the world.<\/li>\n<li>The economic losses suffered by low and lower-middle income countries have crippling consequences for their future development and undermine our efforts to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6. Way forward:<\/strong> There is need for countries to capture economic losses which can help in disaster mitigation, saving lives and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26673\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/US.jpg?resize=503%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/US.jpg?w=503&amp;ssl=1 503w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/US.jpg?resize=150%2C107&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/US.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural disasters cost India $80 billion in 20 years: UN report News: UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) recently released annual report highlighting India\u2019s losses owing to various natural disasters. Important Facts: The study was jointly conducted by UNISDR and Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and released before October 13,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/natural-disasters-cost-india-80-billion-in-20-years-un-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Natural disasters cost India $80 billion in 20 years: UN report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704930329},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}