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Disasters have increased due to climate change
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Climate change affects the entire world, but the World Meteorological Organization says Asian countries are most affected by climate change. For this reason, Asia remains the most disaster-affected region in the world in 2023. Last year, due to floods and cyclones in Asia, a large number of people lost their lives and suffered economic losses.
Disaster events have increased in Asia
The World Meteorological Organization has released a report called Asia’s Climate 2023. The report states that water temperatures in the northwest Pacific Ocean are rising to record levels, with marine heat waves blowing even in the Arctic. Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, said that the year 2023 was record hot in many Asian countries. Along with this, effects of floods, droughts, storms and hot winds were seen. Due to climate change, the speed of disasters in Asia has greatly increased. Which affects our society in economic loss, loss of human life and environment.
79 disasters happened in Asia last year
The report states that 79 hydro-meteorological disasters occurred in Asia last year. 80 percent of these disasters were related to floods and storms. Due to these, more than two thousand people lost their lives in Asia last year and 90 lakh were injured. According to the report, the year 2023 was 0.91 degrees warmer than the average temperature of 1991-2020. At the same time, it was 1.87 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1961-1990 average temperature. Record heat was in Japan and Kazakhstan.
