Pakistan, April 22 -- The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction have released their joint report on Economic Losses, Poverty and Disasters 1998-2017. It is an eye opener. It lists the events caused by changes in climatic conditions.

The report concludes that between 1998 and 2017 climate-related and geophysical disasters killed 1.3 million people. Anothe 4.4 million people were injured, displaced or in need of emergency assistance.

Out of the recorded disatsters, 91 per cent were caused by floods, storms, droughts, heatwaves and other extreme weather events.

In fincncial terms, over the reported period, the world faced direct losses of $2,908 billion. Out of these...