2020 State of Climate Services: Risk Information and Early Warning Systems

Over the past 50 years, more than 11000 disasters have been attributed to weather, climate and water-related hazards, involving 2 million deaths and US$ 3.6 trillion in economic losses. While the average number of deaths recorded for each disaster has fallen by a third during this period, the number of recorded disasters has increased five times and the economic losses have increased by a factor of seven, according to the latest State of Climate Services: Risk Information and Early Warning Syste