A humanitarian organization in the UK yesterday announced that around 21,000 people around the world died from drought and flooding in the first nine months of this year, more than twice as much as last year.
Nearly 2,000 people died in a terrible flood in Pakistan in July. (Photo: sethbarnes.com).
That's the statistics of Oxfam , a non-governmental humanitarian organization in the UK, Telegraph said. A report by the organization indicates that extreme weather events are increasing along with global warming.
Tim Gore, an Oxfam expert, said that large-scale floods in Pakistan and the recent drought in Russia were all caused by climate change.
'Weather disasters cause huge losses this year. The situation may get worse due to climate change. The effects of climate change on humans in 2010 are a strong warning for negotiations on emissions reductions in Mexico , 'Gore said.
A firefighter extinguished forest fires in Russia in August. Russia has experienced the most terrible summer in more than a century. Photo: rferl.org.
Oxfam 's report was made on the opening day of the latest round of talks under the UN-led climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico. The conference takes place from November 29 to December 10.
Oxfam is calling on the international community to establish a Green Fund with a minimum contribution of US $ 100 billion per year to help poor countries adapt to climate change.
Chris Huhne, British Minister of Energy and Climate Change, said that the parties to the Cancun round of negotiations will decide how to spend money on poor countries to reduce deforestation and absorb untreated technologies. damage to the environment. However, he said that countries could not reach a binding agreement completely within negotiations in Cancun.