(In the last sentence of the 1st paragraph it must be called 2022 from 1993 to 2022.)
Berlin (dpa-AFX)-Storms, floods and heat waves have caused around $ 127 billion in Germany to damage in Germany in the past around 30 years. This emerges from a climate risk index that the environmental organization Germanwatch has published and which takes a look at the economic and other climate consequences from 1993 to 2022. Storms, heat waves and floods have become more and more intensive due to global warming.
The disasters worldwide caused around 4.2 trillion in the period in the period, which corresponds to inflation-adjusted, which corresponds to the entire current economic output of Germany. In addition, almost 800,000 people lost their lives as a result of this weather extreme.
Greece and Spain among the very affected states
States of the global south are particularly affected – for example, Dominica storms caused damage that exceeded the entire economic output of the island state many times over. But two European countries can also be found among the ten most violent countries – namely Greece and Spain. They often suffer from heat waves or forest fires. In China, the damage in the period under consideration added up to $ 706 billion.
Laura Schäfer, an expert in international climate policy of the Germanwatch organization, points out that significantly higher damage can be expected in the long term: “According to studies, climate change will shrink the worldwide gross domestic product by at least 20 percent to 2100 if only climate protection measures as before Countries would be implemented announced, “said Schäfer of the dpa. “Costs for the necessary climate adaptation have not yet been included. These massive damage is six times higher than the costs of measures for climate protection that would lead to a path to comply with the 1.5 degree limits.”
Greens boss Felix Banaszak said the dpa: “Germany as the most important economy in Europe decides significantly about the direction of Europe in compliance with the climate goals.” For example, the next federal government has to consistently reduce climate -damaging subsidies and bring individual sectors into responsibility again. “Because one thing is clear: we cannot get used to increasing number of victims or ever higher billions of billions.”
The index runs until 2022, because this is the latest year for the data required in all databases used ./Swe/dp/mis
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