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Climate Change Could Add Around $100B to Costs of Extreme Weather

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Climate change could add around $100 billion, or more than 20%, to the global cost of extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves and droughts by 2040, research from Cambridge University shows. The findings come from the university’s Climate Change Business Risk Index, which uses climate modeling data to quantify extreme weather event risks and… Continue reading Climate Change Could Add Around $100B to Costs of Extreme Weather