Climate-fuelled disasters bring 'grave' costs across the globe in 2021


A view of the situation in Taman Sri Muda on Christmas day after being affected by floods in Shah Alam. FAIHAN GHANI/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: From deadly Hurricane Ida in the United States to devastating floods in China and Europe, climate change-fuelled disasters have cost the world tens of billions of dollars in 2021, with both the poor and the rich hit hard, researchers said on Monday.

Floods, storms and drought also killed and displaced millions of people across some of the world's poorest regions, highlighting the rising injustice of impacts as the planet warms, humanitarian charity Christian Aid said in a report.

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