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Extreme #Weather Events Like Devastating #Floods Cost #India $10 Billion, Finds UK Report

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(📸: C Suresh Kumar/TOI, BCCL, Chennai)

Fifteen extreme weather events, influenced by #climatechange, were identified globally this year, including the terrible #floods that struck India cost $10 billion, killing 2,000, a UK charity report said on Monday.

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The #London-based Christian Aid's report, 'Counting the cost 2020: A year of climate breakdown', said 10 of those events cost $1.5 billion or more.The #US was hit by the highest costs due to the record-breaking #hurricane season and #fires.

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South #Sudan, for example, experienced one of its worst floods on record, which killed 138 people and destroyed the year's crops. Some of the disasters hit fast, like cyclone #Amphan, which struck the Bay of Bengal in May and caused losses valued at $13 billion in just a few days

Six of the 10 most costly events took place in #Asia, five of them associated with an unusually rainy monsoon. And in #Africa, huge locust swarms ravaged crops and vegetation across several countries, causing damages estimated at $8.5 billion.

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The #US suffered a record-breaking #hurricane season and a record-breaking fire season, causing more than $60 billion in damages.Less populated places suffered the consequences of a warming world.

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The #ParisAgreement, which set the goal of keeping temperature rise "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, and ideally 1.5 degrees, compared to pre-industrial levels, has just turned five years old.

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Roxy Mathew Koll, climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune, said: "2020 was exceptionally warm, as far as the #IndianOcean is concerned. We saw record temperatures in the #ArabianSea and #BayofBengal, straddling between 30-33 degrees Celsius.