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25 recommended articles and videos in the "Climate Change Costs and Damages" category.
1.  Featured: $50.5 Billion and Counting: Climate Groups Launch 'Cost of Inaction' Ticker  

2022-05-05

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
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“In 2021, the United States experienced 20 billion-dollar-plus disasters, the second-highest of all time. Every second the Senate delays action on bold climate investments, the cost of inaction only increases.”

2.  Featured: World rocked by 29 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2022  

2022-10-19

Yale Universities Climate Connections
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Florida's Hurricane Ian, a $20 billion drought and heat wave in Europe, and deadly floods in Pakistan are among the catastrophes so far this year. The post World rocked by 29 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2022 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

3.  Globally unequal effect of extreme heat on economic growth  

2023-07-22

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Heatwaves, brought on by human-caused climate change, cost the global economy an estimated $16tn over a 21-year period from the 1990s; Results of a study published by academics at Dartmouth last year.

4.  This Year's Top 10 Global Climate Disasters Each Cost Over $3 Billion  

2022-12-27

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
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A faith-based coalition's annual report on the economic impact of climate-driven natural disasters revealed Tuesday that each of the costliest extreme weather events of 2022 caused more than $3 billion in damage.The report—entitled Counting the Cost 2022: A Year of Climate Breakdown—was published b...

5.  Biggest climate toll in year of ‘devastating’ disasters revealed  

2022-12-27

Climate crisis | The Guardian
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2022 in Climate Disasters:
Christian Aid’s chief executive, Patrick Watt, said: “Having 10 separate climate disasters in the last year that each cost more than $3bn points to the financial cost of inaction on the climate crisis.

“But behind the dollar figures lie millions of stories of human loss and suffering. Without major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, this human and financial toll will only increase.

“The human cost of climate change is seen in the homes washed away by floods, loved ones killed by storms and livelihoods destroyed by drought.

“This year was a devastating one if you happened to live on the frontline of the climate crisis.”
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6.  The world’s insurance bill from natural disasters this year: $115 billion  

2022-12-02

Grist
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The world’s insurance bill from climate driven natural disasters this year: $115 billion
That’s 42 percent higher than the 10-year average.
That is just the insurance costs, much damage , especially in devloping countries is uninsured. Much property in developed and developing countries is already effectively uninsurable already carrying high climate risk.

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