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Bad weather in Italy: one death and more than 2 billion euros in damage in 2021

2021-11-14T17:03:23.014Z


A man was killed in southern Sardinia on Sunday following heavy rains, as weather damage exceeds ... A man was killed on Sunday in southern Sardinia following heavy rains, while weather damage already exceeds two billion euros in 2021, according to an agricultural union. Read also Italy: these street lawyers who restore their dignity to the homeless Firefighters announced on Twitter in the morning that they were looking for an elderly man in southern Sardinia who had abandoned his car blocked b


A man was killed on Sunday in southern Sardinia following heavy rains, while weather damage already exceeds two billion euros in 2021, according to an agricultural union.

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Firefighters announced on Twitter in the morning that they were looking for an elderly man in southern Sardinia who had abandoned his car blocked by very heavy rains, before his body was found in the afternoon, probably washed away by a flood.

At the same time La Coldiretti, one of the main agricultural unions on the peninsula announced on Sunday that climate change had already caused more than two billion euros in damage in the Italian countryside this year.

"

A dramatic situation

", denounces the Coldiretti in a press release, assuring that Italy has recorded in 2021, so far "

1914 extreme (climatic) events

" between floods, tornadoes, hail, frost and heat waves, "

in 45% increase compared to the same period 2020

”.

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"

The result is damage that exceeds two billion euros in 2021 between losses in national agricultural production and damage to structures and infrastructure in the countryside

", adds Coldiretti.

"

We are facing the consequences of climate change in Italy as well (...) with a tendency to tropicalize

" the climate and the multiplication of extreme climatic events, concludes Coldiretti.

Source: lefigaro

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