Extreme weather has cost Europe about €500bn over 40 years
by Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#5VQR5)
European Environment Agency data shows worst-hit countries to be Germany, France and Italy
Severe floods and other extreme weather have cost Europe about half a trillion euros in the past four decades, with Germany, France and Italy the worst-hit countries.
Between 90,000 and 142,000 deaths were attributed to weather and climate-related events over the period 1980 to 2020, the overwhelming majority of them from heatwaves.
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