Climate-linked extreme weather blamed for rising impacts globally
Flooding, the worst of the impacts globally, continued to affect the largest number of people, more than 35 million.
Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
The Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters is a research institution that studies the human impact of natural and technological disasters. Based in Brussels, Belgium, the center maintains the EM-DAT database, which is the world's most comprehensive public database on disaster statistics.
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