The world is set to face 1.5 disasters a day — 560 a year — by 2030, as humans put themselves on a 'spiral of self-destruction' by heating up the climate and ignoring risk, pushing millions more people into poverty, the United Nations warned.
Typhoon Odette caused widespread devastation in Dinagat Islands, Philippines in December 2021. Screenshot from Philippine Navy video
"Raising the alarm by speaking the truth is not only necessary but crucial," said Mami Mizutori, head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction , which published the Global Assessment Report 2022. But measures to slash planet-heating emissions and adapt to global warming are both lagging, the panel said.
"The world needs to do more to incorporate disaster risk in how we live, build and invest, which is setting humanity on a spiral of self-destruction," said Deputy UN Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed in a statement.Disasters have cost an average of about $170 billion each year in the last decade, the report said, with developing nations and their poorest people suffering disproportionately.
In the Philippines, for example, millions of people are still recovering from Typhoon Rai , which struck in December, killing over 300 people and leaving hundreds of thousands more displaced, along with about $500 million in damages. Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, said countries must stop "managing each crisis as a separate surprise", and instead invest in building systems that can help people cope with climate threats.
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