New Study: The World Is Safer From Climate-Related Disasters Than Ever
Date: 17/01/20
Climate Discussion Nexus
During the last 30 years the mortality risk from climate-related disasters plunged more than six-fold and the economic loss rates went down five-fold.
Fig. 4. Mortality rates as function of the wealth for multi and single hazards. Mortality rates are expressed as number of fatalities per 10 000 people exposed. Wealth is approximated by the GDP per capita (in US$-PPP) at the time of the event.
A paper published in the scientific literature in July 2019 had the refreshingly plain-language title “Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazardsâ€. Care to guess what it’s about? In slightly less plain-language, the authors say:
https://www.thegwpf.com/the-world-is-safer-from-climate-related-disasters-than-ever/
