climate change is bigger threat than covid-19
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Climate change poses an even greater threat to public health than the COVID-19 pandemic – and needs to be treated with equal urgency, Jagan Chapagain, Secretary-General of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), told a virtual news conference on Tuesday.
He was speaking at Tuesday’s launch of the IFRC’s World Disasters Report 2020, which finds that a rising wave of extreme weather and climate-related events have killed more than 410,000 people over the past decade.
“Of course, the COVID is there, it’s in front of us, it is affecting our families, our friends, our relatives. It’s a very, very serious crisis the world is facing currently,” Chapagain said.
But, he warned that “climate change will have a more significant medium and long term impact on the human life and on Earth… and unfortunately, there is no vaccine for climate change”.
The report finds that over the past decade, 83% of all disasters triggered by natural hazards were caused by extreme weather and climate-related events such as storms, floods and heatwaves. Together, these disasters have killed more than 410,000 people and affected 1.7 billion people. Meanwhile, efforts to tackle climate change are failing those people who are most at risk from its effects. Those countries most affected by climate change receive only a fraction of the funding that is available for adapting to climate change, the report found.
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because climate change in hour to hour or month to month or suddenly