China News Service, April 26. According to Agence France-Presse, the United Nations warned on the 26th, local time, that by 2030, about 560 disasters will occur each year around the world, as climate warming and neglect of risks put human beings in "self". destruction" situation.
On March 18, local time, the wildfires continued to spread in Texas, USA, and firefighters put out the fire.
According to reports, a report released by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) said that in the past 20 years, 350 to 500 large and medium-sized disasters have occurred globally each year, which is about 5 times higher than the average of the previous 30 years.
The report estimates that catastrophic events such as droughts, floods and extreme temperatures will occur more frequently in the future.
By 2030, around 560 disasters will occur globally each year, an average of 1.5 per day.
Amina Mohammed, under-secretary-general of the United Nations, warned in a statement that the enormous risk of neglect "is driving humanity into a state of self-destruction".
The report also mentioned that over the past decade, the global annual disaster loss is about 170 billion US dollars.
The report estimates that by 2030, 37.6 million people will live in extreme poverty globally due to climate change and disasters.
Disasters can be prevented, but only if countries invest time and resources, said Mizutori Mami, head of UNDRR.
"Countries are effectively 'financing' their own destruction by ignoring risk and not factoring it into decision-making," she warned.