{"id":85710,"date":"2020-10-14T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17874"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T10:28:40","slug":"undrr-releases-human-cost-of-disasters-2000-2019-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/undrr-releases-human-cost-of-disasters-2000-2019-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDRR releases Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction(UNDRR) has released a report titled \u201cThe Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Key Highlights from the report:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people resulting in approximately US$2.97 trillion in global economic losses.<\/li>\r\n<li>Asia has suffered the highest number of disasters in the past 20 years followed by the Americas and Africa.<\/li>\r\n<li>Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years.<\/li>\r\n<li>Major floods had more than doubled in 20 years.India is the 2nd most affected country by floods after China.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>UNDRR (formerly UNISDR): <\/strong>It is the United Nations focal point created in 1999 for disaster risk reduction.\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>It oversees the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 supporting countries in its implementation, monitoring and sharing what works in reducing existing risk and preventing the creation of new risk.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction(UNDRR) has released a report titled \u201cThe Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019\u201d. Facts: Key Highlights from the report: In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people resulting in approximately US$2.97 trillion in global economic losses.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/undrr-releases-human-cost-of-disasters-2000-2019-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNDRR releases Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019 Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[3123,3124],"class_list":["post-85710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","tag-human-cost-of-disasters-2000-2019-report","tag-undrr","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704924806},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85710","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=85710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}