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Climate-related disasters on the rise in Asia-Pacific [1]

Is the Asia-Pacific region set to bear the onerous title of having become the disaster centre of the globe? So it would seem if one went by UNDP’s Asia-Pacific Development Report “One Planet to Share — Sustaining Human Progress in a Changing Climate”.

Climate-related disasters are on the rise and during the last two decades, 45 per cent of the world’s natural disasters, whether it be floods in Pakistan in 2010 or Cyclone Nargis which hit Burma in 2008, have occurred here, resulting in numerous deaths, massive human dislocations and severe economic losses.

Publication Date: 
11/05/2012
Rashme Sehgal [2]
Asian Age (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Asia [4], UNDP [5], Natural Disasters [6], Floods [7], Pakistan [8], Cyclones [9], Population [10], Poverty [11], Climate Impacts [12], Food Security [13], India [14], Nepal [15], Bangladesh [16], China [17], Jharkhand [18], Tribals [19], Fisheries [20], Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana [21], Electricity [22], Economy [23], Climate Adaptation [24], Climate Change [25]

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