Al Zulkifli | AFP | Getty ImagesDamage from the global climate crisis has amounted to $391 million per day over the past two decades, a report showed.
"We find that US$143 billion per year of the costs of extreme events is attributable to climatic change.
The research, however, notes that there is an underestimation of the true costs of climate change due to the difficulty of measuring indirect losses.
They called for an increase in adaptation policies to minimize these climate-change attributed costs, such as the building of flood protection or improving early warning signal systems heralding extreme weather events.
"The planet is far off track from meeting its climate goals," the WMO said in a September report, adding that rising global temperatures have been accompanied by more extreme weather.
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