{"id":8288,"date":"2013-05-16T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T03:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T03:21:20","slug":"un-says-natural-disasters-cost-2-5-tn-since-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=8288","title":{"rendered":"UN says natural disasters cost $2.5 tn since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1\u0532\u0576\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576-\u0561\u0572\u0565\u057f\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u0561\u0580\u056a\u0565\u0584\u0568-\u056f\u0561\u0566\u0574\u0565\u056c-\u0567-2.5-\u057f\u0580\u056b\u056c\u056b\u0578\u0576-\u0564\u0578\u056c\u0561\u0580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8286\" alt=\"1\u0532\u0576\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576 \u0561\u0572\u0565\u057f\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b \u0561\u0580\u056a\u0565\u0584\u0568 \u056f\u0561\u0566\u0574\u0565\u056c \u0567 2.5 \u057f\u0580\u056b\u056c\u056b\u0578\u0576 \u0564\u0578\u056c\u0561\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1\u0532\u0576\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576-\u0561\u0572\u0565\u057f\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u0561\u0580\u056a\u0565\u0584\u0568-\u056f\u0561\u0566\u0574\u0565\u056c-\u0567-2.5-\u057f\u0580\u056b\u056c\u056b\u0578\u0576-\u0564\u0578\u056c\u0561\u0580.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>The cost of natural disasters has hit $2.5 trillion so far this century, far higher than previously estimated, a UN report said Wednesday, urging companies to face up to the risks.<br \/>\nThe study by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) said the figure, representing only direct losses, was more accurate than traditional tallies.<br \/>\nMost tallies &#8220;just represent the picture from internationally-reported disasters, the big disasters which get into the headlines,&#8221; said Andrew Maskrey, author of the UNISDR&#8217;s latest Global Assessment Report.<br \/>\n&#8220;If you add in all the nationally-reported disasters, which don&#8217;t get into the international media and the international databases, our impression is that losses are about 50 percent higher than is currently being reported, and losses are going up rapidly,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nBusinesses have been outsourcing to disaster-prone locations without taking adequate catastrophe-proofing precautions, a move which could be potentially costly in case of a disaster, he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of natural disasters has hit $2.5 trillion so far this century, far higher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}