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Low-development regions suffer far higher losses in climate disasters, study warns
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People living in regions with lower scores on the Human Development Index face a substantially higher risk from climate-related disasters, even when these are not unusually severe. This is the key finding of a new study led by researchers at Leipzig University. The study analyzed more than 7,000 climate-related disasters worldwide between 1990 and 2020 and combined these data with subnational indicators of human development.
People living in regions with lower scores on the Human Development Index face a substantially higher risk from climate-related disasters, even when these are not unusually severe. This is the key finding of a new study led by researchers at Leipzig University. The study analyzed more than 7,000 climate-related disasters worldwide between 1990 and 2020 and combined these data with subnational indicators of human development. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications.