India, Jan. 17 -- World Economic Forum's 'Global Risks Report 2020' and UN's 'Global Economic Prospects' claim extreme weather and loss in biodiversity will disrupt the global economy

Climate change is the biggest threat the planet will face in the next decade, in part because extreme weather and loss in biodiversity will disrupt the global economy, two new reports have said.

While the World Economic Forum made the dire prediction in its The Global Risks Report 2020 released on January 15, 2020, the United Nations (UN) confirmed the same in its 'Global Economic Prospects' report on January 16, 2020.

The climate crisis has been a major risk factor behind the slow down in global economic growth in 2019, the UN report said.

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