FILE - A polling official enjoys a cooling spray of water under intense heat at a distribution venue for Electronic Voting Machines and other election material on the eve of the fifth phase of polling in the six-week-long national election in Lucknow, India, Sunday, May 19, 2024. Thats because of better warning, planning and resilience.
“Twenty years ago there was no tsunami early warning system except for one small part of the world. Now the whole world is covered by a tsunami warning system" after thePeople are getting better warnings about tropical cyclones — also called hurricanes and typhoons — so now the chances of dying in a tropical cyclone in a place like the Philippines are about one-third of what they were 20 years ago, Kishore said.
While there are fewer deaths globally from disasters, there are still pockets in the poorest of countries, especially in Africa, where deaths are worsening or at least staying the same, Guha-Sapir said. It's much like public health's efforts to eradicate measles, success in most places, but areas that can least cope are not improving, she said.
“Fewer people are dying, but that’s not because climate change is not happening,'' Kishore said ”That is despite the climate change. And that is because we have invested in resilience, invested in early warning systems.''