Extreme weather encourages Climate crisis cost some of the world’s poorest country $ 156 billion (£ 116 mil) over the past two decades, Independent can detect.
Intense drought, flood, cyclones and more influenced 364 million people and caused more than 42,000 deaths, of which since 2000. to 17,000 can be properly attributed Climate change. Nations are the hardest affected Somalia, Haiti And Uganda.
Researchers in ODI Global, internationally research tank, they also found Climate crisis A billion dollars of valuable agricultural losses contributed, with farmers across the street Somalia and Ethiopia Forced to give up on the livelihood for the middle of growing the scarcity of food, saying that there are old men should serve as a “call for awakening global creators.”
“If the UK has suffered tens of billion pounds that would make the actions of other countries, our government and the public increased from the roofs about the injustice,” Mike Childs, the head of the country’s friends Independent.
“However, this is the reality of many countries in the fronts of the climate that contributed almost anything to global emissions.”
The vessels come after Donald Trump ripped US help consumptionwith The UK is also plans to cut billions of pounds In financing, with Independent Reporting of a devastating impact on countries that are most affected Climate crisis Thanks to the loss Food support and disaster prevention.
“It is deeply unfair that those who have made the least contributed to the Climate crisis for the loved one – the UK has a central role in that injustice,” said Carla Denyer, the collaborator of green party, he said. “While governments love our delay, countries like Somalia and EthiopiaAnd the small islands of the nation – some of the world’s poorest countries – pay the price. “
“Recent governments to the side Budget to help They are especially disturbing in this context, with so much over the world, relying on essential humanitarian aid as a result of extreme time caused by a climate crisis, “MS Denyer added.
‘Every year we see more devastation’
Study 53 low-income countries include 36 countries in the development of small islands in the Caribbean, Pacific and Atlantic and 17 countries of Sahel and greater Africa.
Since 2000. years, these countries have suffered $ 395 billion losses and harms from extreme weather conditions, of which 156 billion dollars can be attributed to the crisis.
“Each year we see more devastation from the deterioration of effects Climate change“” Emily Wilkinson said, the main research guy on ODI Global.
“The richer nations urgently need to scale climate finances and ensure that it reaches the right places. For remote or unstable places [facing conflict or other vulnerabilities]As those presented in the study, obtaining projects from the country could be more difficult, but the benefits will also feel the most commonly sensed populations. “
2023. Year, COP28 climatic summit agreed on the creation of a loss and damage fund, which would provide financial support for some destruction caused by climate change. But rich, more pollution countries have pledged a total of 768 million dollars to the Fund; The boy of financial losses that face vulnerable countries will continue to face. This year, it was agreed that the fund would pay $ 250 million to this sum by the end of 2026. years.
Hurricane, drought and floods
In order to calculate the share of losses and damage caused by climate change, the GLOBAL’s research uses the studies of the EM-DAT, an international database that covers disaster reports in mass catastrophes, and disaster reports in mass catasters.
Tropical cyclones – are often called hurricane or tiffus – and floods caused the most damage in small developing countries such as bahamas, which lost at least $ 4 billion from events attributed to climate.
Scientists believe that tropical cyclones become more intense thanks to the crisis climate, due to the warmer sea and stronger winds that increase their influence. Meanwhile, the growing seabed levels from the melting caps will contribute to increasing the flood of the island with low altitudes.
Heavy dries and deadly floods have released Sahel and Rog Africa, difficult to influence many communities that rely on agriculture. The ODI Global Report determined that climate change contributed at least 11.5 billion dollars losses and harms to livestock and crops in these countries – causing lasting damage to life and food in agricultural areas, with higher poverty rates.
Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda I Ethiopia They suffered tens of billions of dollars with losses between them, but Somalia suffered the worst of all. Dry repairs and subsequent floods led up to 151 billion dollars of loss and harm; $ 75 billion from which the GLOBAL estimates can be attributed to climatic changes.
Somali extended droughs exacerbated climate crises, researchers found contributing to lower rain temperatures, warmer air temperatures and higher evapotranspiration – or combined processes water from the Earth in the atmosphere.
This drought in recent years has caused widespread crops and livestock losses, mushes of many farmers and paths in poverty nearly half of Somali eight million, faced food insecurity. As independently reported, Somalia is once more confronted with susho and low crops; But this time charity organizations are worried that cuts will help restrict their The ability to respond to the shortage of food.
Many nations involved in the ODI Global study have less economies, increasing the impact of losses related to climate crisis. On the Caribbean island of Dominica, such damage cost almost tenth (9.25 percent) of the gross domestic product (GDP) on average in the last two decades.
HaitiKenya and Grenada are among the nations that are already facing significant losses, more than two percent of GDP per year, thanks to climate change. Extreme weather events such as hurricanes can significantly increase that number, given the passage that can be done quickly.
This means that poorer peoples, some of which are faced with further pending from regional conflicts, disproportionately take the climate-related ruins.
These effects will continue to worsen, warn the researchers from Global ODI; At least $ 235 billion in these countries is estimated in the climate damage if the planet is heated by 2 ° C compared to the pre-industrial level. According to climate scientists in Europe Copernic climatic climate change (C3S), each of the last 10 years (2015-2024) was one of the 10 hottest years on records. The monthly global average temperature exceeded 1.5 ° C above the pre-industrial level in 11 months per year.
“Escalishing costs from climate change will have a serious toll on economic growth and living standards, and expands the risk of geopolitical stability in some regions,” said Mrs. Wilkinson, a research guy on ODI Global. “Climate change that contribute to the poor, more dangerous, the future is bad for everything, but we are not late to change the course.”
Disorders to help increase hunger risk and poverty
In the vicar extreme weather, the communities rely heavily on help such as people displaced from their homes and food access and infrastructure are disturbed.
Only 2023. years, countries in this study received about 7.5 billion pounds in US and Great Britain, with millions of people who rely on life in life.
But with the total dismantling of the US International Development Agency (USAID) and UK UK threatening help access for about 55 million peopleThis support is dried; But the consequences of climate change get worse.
In Ethiopia, the lack of food in the northern region led to starvation. But a The $ 222 million gap has already forced the World Food Program To suspend the treatment of malnutrition for 650,000 women and children.
Only this week rules refused to review their reduction to help consumption and cannot be obliged to finance the diet, The International Committee for Development reported.
Spokesperson for foreign office in the UK, Joint and Development Office said, “The requirements for the action from the most vulnerable and conditions for the provision of security for British citizens are basically aligned.
“That is why we support those who experience the worst impacts of the climate crisis and work together with partners to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.”
This article is produced as part of an independent Reviewing global help project