The atlas of mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremes 1970–2019

This publication focuses on the impacts that weather-, climate- and water-related hazards have on society, highlighting areas of disparity where more work is needed to support implementation of the Sendai Framework. This report gives an overview of impacts from weather, climate and water extremes globally from 1970 to 2019 based on disaster data from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). Disaster statistics were conducted for the 50-year and decadal periods at the national, regional and global scales. It also calls attention to the significant benefits that can be achieved in strengthening disaster accounting processes through more systematic attribution of losses to the underlying hazard. A special section of this report focusses on the disproportionate impacts that tropical cyclones have on disaster statistics as well as on developing countries. 

Resulting, this publication underscores the importance of partnerships among different international organizations and stakeholders in loss and damage accounting to increase awareness and strengthening of standards in loss accounting and related disaster databases.