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UN Report: 500 Medium-To-Large-Scale Disasters Occur Yearly

April 26, 2022 8:26 pm

A United Nations (UN) report has revealed that between 350 and 500 medium-to-large-scale disasters occurred very year over the past two decades.

The report added that human activity was a major contributor to the calamities.

The report, titled: “The Global Assessment Report (GAR2022)’’, released on Tuesday at the UN Headquarters in New York, observed that human activity and behaviors were contributing to an increasing number of disasters across the world.

These, the report said, had put millions of lives in danger, together with a wide range of social and …

Record Temperatures Accelerating Rise Of Sea Levels, UN Warns

September 9, 2020 4:33 pm

Record temperatures are accelerating the rise of sea levels, melting glaciers and snow coverage and threatening the water supplies for billions, according to a major UN report Wednesday charting the “increasing and irreversible” impacts of climate change.

The multi-agency United in Science report said the world had seen its warmest five years on record in the last five years, adding that extreme weather events bore “a clear fingerprint” of climate change.

It comes after UN chief Antonio Guterres told AFP that nations must use the coronavirus crisis as a springboard to implement “transformational” green policies to make energy, transport, industry …