the-human-cost-of-weather-related-disasters-1995-2015

This report presents an analysis of global weather-related disaster trends over a twenty year time-frame, and highlights the need for a new climate change agreement from the Climate Change Conference in December 2015. The report demonstrates that since the first Climate Change Conference in 1995, 606,000 lives have been lost and 4.1 billion people have been injured, left homeless or in need of emergency assistance as a result of weather-related disasters. The report also highlights data gaps, for instance only 35% of records include information about economic losses.