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Disasters cost the world 300 bln USD per year: UN [1]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said on Wednesday disasters cost globally more than 300 billion U.S. dollars in losses every year, urging the world to act on disaster risk reduction.

Publication Date: 
05/03/2015
Shanghai Daily (China) [2]
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Natural Disasters [3], Economy [4], Disaster Management [5], Risk Assessment [6], Climate Change [7], Earthquakes [8], Floods [9]
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