With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise,international catastrophe risk reduction efforts are woefully underfundedThe world’s failure to prepare for natural disasters will have “inconceivably bad” consequences as climate change fuels a enormous increase in catastrophic droughts and floods and the humanitarian crises that follow, the UN’s head of catastrophe planning has warned.final year, and earthquakes,floods, heatwaves and landslides left 22773 people dead, or affected 98.6 million others and caused $66.5bn (£47bn) of economic damage (pdf). Yet the international community spends less than half of one per cent of the global aid budget on mitigating the risks posed by such hazards. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com