A new UN report makes an in-depth analysis of ten disasters since 2020, explaining how they are interconnected and will require addressing root causes, not piecemeal solutions
We live in an interconnected world, and as interconnectivity increases, so does our exposure to climate risks, according to a new The study highlights that record-breaking disasters taking place in various parts of the planet should not be seen in isolation, but as interconnected events where human activity is a major root cause.
Meanwhile the Covid-19 pandemic, itself amplified by our hyper-connected world, has found ways to compound disasters. Illustrating how disasters that are seemingly local can have global consequences, the report notes how the Amazon wildfires in 2020, which saw an area larger than Fiji burnt down, led directly to almost 2,200 people being hospitalised due to respiratory illness in South America and a further 4.5 million worldwide affected by air pollution.
Other disasters the report examined included the Central Vietnam floods; Chinese paddlefish extinction; the Great Barrier Reef bleaching in Australia, and the desert locust outbreak in East Africa, the Middle East and Indian subcontinent.The study singles out three categories of root causes most linked to the events it analysed: greenhouse gas emissions, insufficient disaster risk management, and an undervaluing of the environmental costs of development and governance decisions.
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