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Developing nations bear the brunt of extreme weather
2013-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were the countries that suffered the most due to extreme weather events in 2012, according to the Global Climate Risk Index released yesterday at the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The 2012 events that hit these countries and, so explain their high ranking were Hurricane Sandy in Haiti, Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines, and severe monsoon flooding in Pakistan. "We have lost almost US$15 billion to floods and droughts in the last three years and...
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