NEW YORK — Extreme weather has caused 2 million deaths and more than $4 trillion in damages over the last 50 years, according to a United Nations report.
The report, published Monday by the World Meteorological Organization — a U.N. science agency — said that nearly 12,000 weather disasters occurred between 1970 and 2021 around the world.
However, the devastation was felt most strongly in developing countries, which suffered 90% of the deaths and 60% of the economic toll.
