U.S. Climate Disasters Have Cost Nearly $1 Trillion So Far This Decade - VoronoiU.S. Climate Disasters Have Cost Nearly $1 Trillion So Far This Decade
Key Takeaways
- The inflation-adjusted cost of billion-dollar climate events has increased significantly with each passing decade.
- Just six years into the 2020s, the cost of billion-dollar climate disasters has already approached the total seen over the entire 2010s.
- Tropical cyclones account for just over half of all losses since 1980.