Climate change is an expensive problem. According to the insurance and risk management firm Aon, economic losses from natural disasters worldwide amounted to $313 billion in 2022 and $380 billion in 2023.
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The World Bank reported in 2019 that in low-income and middle-income countries, weather-related service disruptions and poor maintenance of infrastructure cost households and businesses between $390 billion and $647 billion a year.
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Investment in early warning systems, infrastructure improvements, alternative water storage, and drought-tolerant crops can lessen the pain.
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The Trump administration has slashed these foreign assistance programs in the name of reducing costs. It cut over 80 percent of USAID’s 6,200-plus grants and contracts, including almost 100 percent of those that have something to do with climate.
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