Germanwatch

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Germanwatch is a international organization that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

Who suffers most from extreme weather events? Weather-related loss events in 2019 and 2000 to 2019

The Global Climate Risk Index 2021 analyses to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). Human impacts (fatalities) and direct economic losses were analysed. The most recent data available — for 2019 and from 2000 to 2019 — were taken into account. The […]

Germanwatch · 25 Jan 2021

5 Dec 2019

Climate Risks increasing worldwide – even for High-Income-Countries

Global Climate Risk Index: Japan and Germany hit hardest by heat waves and drought in 2018. Philippines on rank 2 struck by tropical cyclones. Puerto Rico, Myanmar and Haiti with highest weather-related losses 1999 – 2018. Nearly 500,000 people killed as a result of more than 12,000 extreme weather events that caused 3.5 trillion US-Dollars in damages.