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UN: climate change will further exacerbate the flooding disasters such as storm
Author：sehenstar Source：SeHenStar Pubtime：2015-03-16 12:53:57 Click：583
According to the United Nations website has news, on the occasion of the opening of the third session of the United Nations World Conference on disaster reduction will, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe pointed out that in the past more than 20 years, floods, droughts and storms cause economic losses of up to $ 1.3 trillion to the world, it causes the number of people affected over 4 billion. In future, with water-related disasters will be further exacerbated with climate change.
Photo images of natural disasters. Source: United Nations Web site.
Rodriguez, a spokesman for ECE (Jean Rodriguez), 13th at a press conference held at the United Nations Office at Geneva stated that, with water-related disasters each year not only brought great losses to the global economy but also cause damage to many aspects of social life. According to statistics, since 1992, floods, droughts and storms and water-related natural disasters, such as the global population of 95%, which is 4.2 billion people have been affected, all disasters caused economic losses accounting for 63% of the total loss.
RODRIGUEZ said that according to statistics from Munich Re, in 2014, in Serbia, and Croatia as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina caused flooding rains, caused a loss of about $ 3.6 billion to these countries. In addition, in 2014, United States near 82%, California's population has experienced extreme or special dry weather, which caused direct damage to local agriculture by about $ 1.5 billion, the resulting economic losses amounting to us $ 2.2 billion.
Rodriguez pointed out that in practice, published by the UNECE Convention on the protection and use of transboundary rivers and International Lakes (Water Convention) in terms of prevention and response to water-related natural disasters can play a positive role. Since 2010, the Convention has been working on the implementation of pilot projects and coordinate work in global testing platform, currently including the Danube, the Rhine, the Mekong River, 14 river basins of Niger and other countries involved in the pilot projects and test beds.
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