Counting the cost
Environmental disasters, including drought and flood, cost the world more than us $70 billion in 2002, reveals United Nations Environment Programme (unep). This year floods ravaged Europe, China, India, Nepal and Bangladesh killing thousands of people and leaving millions homeless.
"Natural catastrophes, a vast majority of which have been weather-related, have cost countries and communities an estimated us $56 billion during the period January to September 2002,' said a un statement.
The document reveals that more than 9,400 people died in these disasters
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