The charity Christian Aid says the 10 worst climate disasters this year have cost $140bn in insurance claims.
Bushfires in Australia caused $5bn in losses, killed nearly three billion wild animals and displaced 65,000 people. On the US West Coast, wildfires caused $20bn worth of damage.
In China, flooding in the Yangtze River basin led to $32bn in losses.
However, extreme weather events linked to climate change had a disproportionate effect in poorer countries.
Six of the 10 costliest disasters were in Asia, which was hit by some of the strongest storms on record. They caused heavy human and financial losses in countries that bear little responsibility for global warming, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.
And in East Africa, a massive locust invasion damaged $8.5bn worth of crops. The swarm was linked to unusually wet conditions caused by climate change.
Katherine Kramer, the climate policy lead at Christian Aid, talks to Al Jazeera.
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if we destroy nature it will destroy us back.
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World is sinking
China is the largest carbon polluter in the world, Get your facts right. The problem with this is to have the facts over the wishes of the participants.
Why haven't they asked the developed nations for not being on track on the Paris agreement. I can understand the issues with the US but what about the European nations? Especially the UK which is the highest polluter in Europe. Why only India has been able to stay on track as far as the Paris agreement is concerned? Neither Australia nor any European country is near half of what they promised in the Paris agreement.
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This is Qatar funded channel rt.
So when will Qatar quit Fossil fuels ?
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The ice makes an ozone layer mankind we are going to be exposed to the most health problems scientis open y'all mouth
We certainly do need global international solidarity – solidarity of the ordinary people to be their own political and economic masters, worldwide, and oust the deranged systems of concentrated power that have brought a death cult of destruction on us all.
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Overdue for a huge die-off of these pesky humans that have overrun the planet like a bunch of damned rodents. Ha ha.
Global this and global that doesn't mean ? people don't care about each other so there is no point.
The elements of nature have been given authority to end humanity ?
Angels started the fire ? it can't be put out ?
Bolsonaro must be stopped.
You will doom us all..
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Climate change may be a problem, but the cure will be worse than the disease. Vast sums of money will be spent, with little to show for it. Bad weather will still happen, and has always happened. Be skeptical. Climate alarmists are an existential threat to our freedoms and our prosperity.
We only have one planet we should takecare of it before it's late. Climate change is real, we need global action to help poor countries to get off fossil fuels. Renewable and green energy is the future for all.