The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2021) highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in Crisis or worse.
2020: The Non-COVID Year in Disasters
The year 2020 rivalled 2016 as the world’s hottest recorded year despite the absence of a strong El Niño effect.
This paper discusses how extreme weather disasters (EWD) can jeopardize domestic food supply and disrupt commodity markets. However, historical impacts on European crop production associated with droughts, heatwaves, floods, and cold waves
This report examines the role of companies in building a water-secure world. The cost of water risks to business could be over five times greater than the cost of taking action now to address those risks, according to a new report by CDP

This paper assesses the long-term changes in mortalities due to extreme weather events in India. In the Indian subcontinent, the annual average extreme weather events (EWEs) are reported to be increasing during the last few decades. The impact of

The "Global Climate Risk Index 2021: Who suffers Most from Extreme Weather Events? Weather-related Loss Events in 2019 and 2000 to 2019" analyses to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of weather-related loss events (storms

Impact of Cyclone Amphan in West Bengal, India, May 2020. Sanjoy Karmakar/Shutterstock
Global losses from natural disasters in 2020 came to US$ 210bn, of which some US$ 82bn was insured.
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft (Munich Re)
The newsletter provides a short overview of the human cost of disasters and key recommendations, a longer, comprehensive version of which can be found in the report "The human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years (2000-2019)".
UNDRR report published to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, 2020, confirms how extreme weather events have come to dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century.
In 2019, 396 natural disasters were recorded with 11,755 deaths, 95 million people affected and 103 billion US$1 in economic losses across the world.

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