Economic losses as a result of the disasters connected with weather promptly grow, but preliminary preventions save lives

Geneva, on May 22, 2023 (VMO) — According to new data World meteorological organizations (VMO) during the period from 1970 to 2021 the extreme phenomena connected with weather, climate and water, became the reason of 11 778 registered disasters as a result of which a little more than 2 million people were lost and the economic damage of 4,3 trillion US dollars was caused. Economic losses sharply increased. However thanks to improvement of systems of the preliminary prevention and the coordinated actions on ensuring readiness for disasters and elimination of their consequences for the last...