Sentences with phrase «economic disaster losses»

The IPCC says that «[l] ong - term trends in economic disaster losses adjusted for wealth and population increases have not been attributed to climate change, but a role for climate change has not been excluded.»

Pielke's original claim (that economic disaster losses are increasing because of increased wealth rather than increased disasters) seems well framed to be debated in the context of math and data analysis.

Long - term trends in economic disaster losses adjusted for wealth and population increases have not been attributed to climate change, but a role for climate change has not been excluded.

Long - term trends in economic disaster losses adjusted for wealth and population increases have not been attributed to climate change, but a role for climate change has not been excluded (medium evidence, high agreement).

Long - term trends in normalized economic disaster losses can not be reliably attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change, particularly for cyclones and floods (medium evidence, high agreement).

Not exact matches

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Understanding nuances of human mobility under the influence of such disasters will enable more effective evacuation, emergency response planning, and development of strategies and policies to minimize human fatality, injury, and economic loss.

Policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work was also cited by IPCC, said that the report cherry - picked not only from among the literature to select a paper that delivered the conclusion it hoped to highlight — that a warming globe was worsening economic losses from disasters — but also from within Muir - Wood's paper.

«Over the last 100 + years the economic losses via natural disasters, in absolute terms, have increased,» said Dr. Daniell, who conducts research at KIT as a John Monash Scholar is at the Geophysical Institute as well as the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology CEDIM.

FAO estimates that the disease causes more than $ 2 billion in losses annually and is an economic disaster for the small herders and poor rural households that depend on the animals for milk, meat, wool, and leather both for their own use and for trade.

Drought and water scarcity are considered to be the most far - reaching of all natural disasters, causing short and long - term economic and ecological losses as well as significant secondary and tertiary impacts.

Deep economic and social inequalities, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, disruption caused by natural disasters and climate change are a litmus test for the global community.

«Global economic losses of tens of billions of dollars are attributed to extremes of ENSO (i.e., El Nino and La Nina), suggesting that these events disproportionately trigger socioeconomic disasters on the global scale.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

The increasing impact of natural disasters over recent decades has been well documented, especially the direct economic losses and losses that were insured.

In response to criticism of how its Fourth Assessment Report handled the question of recent trends in economic losses from climate - related disasters, the IPCC issued a statement in January, 2010 saying

But the panel also said there is little evidence that this warming is increasing the loss of life or the economic costs of natural disasters.

Finds that unearned income and excess infant mortality in the year after typhoon exposure outnumber immediate damages and death tolls roughly 15 - to - 1, helping to indicate that economic and human losses due to environmental disaster may be an order of magnitude larger than previously thought and that adaptive decision - making may amplify, rather than dampen, disasters» social cost.

Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster.

These include reducing: mortality from disasters, the number impacted, economic losses, and the damage to critical infrastructure.

Roger Pielke Junior, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, has attacked the IPCC for including in one of its reports a reference to an abstract in 2006, that indicated economic losses from disasters increased between 1970 and 2005.

In a week where we're seeing people's lives lost and communities devastated in Colorado by extreme flooding, the type of disaster we can expect more frequently thanks to climate change, one would think the urgency to act to avoid future economic devastation and loss of life would become crystal clear to those who we elected to represent us.

Of these, 4,615 were due to flash floods and floods, according to the International Disaster Database Centre for research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which have cost the country an estimated USD 396 million in economic losses.

As the extraordinary hurricane and wildfire seasons in the United States underscored last year, more and worse extreme - weather events exact huge tolls in lost lives, disaster recovery costs, and economic losses.

In some cases it is difficult to place specific economic values on important outcomes (e.g. disasters involving large scale loss of life).

Economic losses from weather - and climate - related disasters have increased... — IPCC, «Disaster losses», p9, Summary for Policymakers, Special Report (2012)

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- As economic losses from disasters rise around the world, more effort is needed to reduce the risks from extreme weather and earthquakes in every area, from infrastructure to health, the United Nations disaster prevention chief said.

Economic damages from weather - related disasters climbed to near - record levels in 2012, with over 800 major events worldwide causing an estimated $ 130 billion in losses.

Setting measurable targets — in some cases, with baselines provided as a point of comparison — to reduce disaster deaths, economic losses and damage to infrastructure, for instance, will help countries to deal with the impacts of climate change.

Since this agreement was signed in 2005, disasters have killed more than 700,000 people, and made 23 million homeless, and caused total economic losses of more than $ 1.3 trillion, the new treaty points out.

The analysis of twenty - two disaster loss studies shows that economic losses from various weather related natural hazards, such as storms, tropical cyclones, floods, and small - scale weather events such as wildfires and hailstorms, have increased around the globe.

(That paper was titled «Normalizing economic loss from natural disasters: A global analysis» and published in the journal Global Environmental Change in 2011.)

This guidance report provides evidence for three types of benefits — or dividends of resilience — that disaster risk management (DRM) investments can yield: (i) Avoiding losses when disasters strike; (ii) Stimulating economic activity thanks to reduced disaster risk; and (iii) Development co-benefits, or uses, of a specific DRM investment.

The report estimates that economic losses from disasters can amount to US$ 250 - 300 billion each year.

So, in the case of a massive disaster, the cost of rebuilding afterwards increases GDP — meaning that if an economic indicator that took into account a broader spectrum of economic activity (such as the Genuine Progress Indicator), the real damages to Pakistan are likely larger than that 5 % GDP loss indicates.

Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, joined the University of Colorado at Boulder in organizing the event, which brought together more than 30 experts in the fields of climatology and disaster analysis to discuss the causes of rising economic and human losses due to natural disasters.

This report found, for instance, that the estimates of economic losses from weather and climate related disasters have increased, but with large spatial and inter annual variability.

This includes insurance litigation and bad faith insurance; class actions; defective pharmaceutical and medical products; and environmental disasters, including BP oil spill claims for economic business losses.

Most of the losses would be in economic nature, as opposed to the physical damages caused by natural disasters.