ca3c Comitato di Appoggio alle 3 Convenzioni globali delle Nazioni Unite sull'Ambiente

Weather, climate and water-related disasters are on the rise worldwide, causing loss of life and setting back economic and social development by years, if not decades. From 1970 to 2012, 8 835 disasters, 1.94 million deaths, and US$ 2.4 trillion of economic losses were reported globally as a result of hazards such as droughts, extreme temperatures, floods, tropical cyclones and related health epidemics, according to a new report. (...)

The article:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_998_en.html

More about:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jul/14/8-charts-climate-change-world-more-dangerous

http://www.lescienze.it/news/2014/07/21/news/atlante_vittime_danni_economici_eventi_meteorologici-2219569/

The Atlas:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/drr/transfer/2014.06.12-WMO1123_Atlas_120614.pdf