After a summer marked by exceptional floods in Pakistan, prolonged extreme droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States, remarkable heat waves in Europe and record-breaking forest fires in France, the annual report "United in science" of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), published on Tuesday, takes on a particular flavor.
“The number of disasters related to weather, climate and water has multiplied by 5 in the last fifty years”,
lamented Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations in a video message accompanying the release of the report. .
"Daily losses are over $200 million."
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"Wrong direction"
And the trend does not seem about to get better since
"we are going in the wrong direction"
, says the report, which points to the still significant share given to fossil fuels in today's world.
In fact, despite a slowdown in greenhouse gas emissions…
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