Natural disasters forced 20 million from their homes in 2014: report
[2023-03-23 14:22:38]
GENEVA (Reuters) - Last year, nearly 20 million people were forced to evacuate from their homes due to floods, storms and earthquakes, but this problem could be exacerbated by climate change, but due to construction improvements Can be reduced.
On July 22, 2014, typhoon Rammasun attacked Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Nanning, and the ship's resident captured the overflowing fish by the overflowing river. The strongest typhoon in southern China occurred over the past 40 years. The official media said that at least 77 people went up to 33 people on Monday after dying in the Philippines last week. Reuters / stringers
According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, Asia is particularly prone to natural disasters, nearly 90% of the 19.3 million displaced people in 2014 are from typhoons in China and the Philippines.
Alfredo Zamudio, director of the NRC's National Evacuation Surveillance Center, said at a press conference, "Disaster-related evacuation is increasing and it is highly likely to worsen in the coming decades."
According to the report, since 2008, an average of 26.5 million people have evacuated each year with disasters, while figures in 2014 are below this figure, NRC said the long-term trend is rising.
"According to our historical analysis, today it has been shown that the possibility of migration due to disasters is 60% higher than in the 1970s," Zamudio added. "
UN scientific experts said the emission of greenhouse gases is causing extreme conditions such as hot weather and torrential rains
In addition to the extreme weather phenomena, Zamudio said that rapid growth in regions vulnerable to natural disasters and inappropriately settled settlements endanger more people, leading to more people in Mexico City, Mumbai, Karachi, Port-au-Prince He said that he is citing the city. Region
Extreme weather hit Haiti and Cuba, and the results were different. According to William Lacy Swing, Executive Director of the Immigration International Organization (IOM), in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, more than 300,000 people died in Haiti, of which 60,000 still live in tents.
"Cuba is ready to prepare for disasters such as hurricanes, typhoons, etc. They have a housing system, there is a public education system, everyone knows what to do in the event of a disaster" "He said.
"The biggest case we found was Japan, about 230,000 people evacuated after the earthquake in Northeastern 2011 and the disaster of the tsunami, of which thousands of people surrounded the afflicted areas of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station I evacuated. "
Since the 2012 Hurricane Sandy he said that more than 50,000 people still need housing assistance in the United States.
Mr. Swing said that although the vast majority of those who escape the disaster are still in their own country, they may be faced with "emerging immigration prevention emotions especially in developed countries".
"This only increases the number of people, in many cases they will move without proper evidence documents, get convicted, forced home or be forcibly repatriated.
"This is only a further complication and worsening of the worldwide migration phenomenon in our time."
More than 19 million people from 100 countries were forced to evacuate from their homes in 2014 due to natural disasters, according to the latest data from the National Disaster Monitoring Center in 2015. In this case, the response to the disaster of the state is segmented, and the system to prevent the influence of the environmental phenomenon is insufficient. Prior to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris which ended on December 12, climate change and human mobility activists, experts, and scholars strive to ensure that the relevance of these issues are dealt with properly did. However, at the two-week meeting, the focus was on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the government's final agreement was focused on the global temperature drop in 2100.
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