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Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2024
November 8 , 2024
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- UNDRR hosted the 2024 Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) in Manila, Philippines.
- The "Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2024" focuses on the transformative disaster resilience in East and North-East Asia.
- From 1970 to 2024, disasters caused close to half a million fatalities.
- It affected 3 billion people and caused an estimated damage of around $2 trillion in East and North-East Asia
- Particularly, drought risk will increase in North and West China under a 1.5°C and under 2°C, it shifts further to Western China, becoming more severe.
- China recorded the highest cumulative number of fatalities in the subregion, with over 450,000 deaths, followed by Japan with over 32,000 deaths.
- In East and North-East Asia, early warning systems have the potential to prevent $107.5 Billion to $ 161.3 Billion annually.
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