Sunday, December 27, 2015

UNISDR report: The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) on released the report titled The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters.
  • The report was compiled by UNISDR and the Belgian-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
  • The report depicts that over the last 20 years, 90% of major disasters have been caused by 6457 recorded floodsstormsheatwavesdroughts and other weather-related events.

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