Category Archives: Climate Change

India, Cambodia, Philippines Top Climate Risk Index

December 3, 2014 — Environmental group Germanwatch announced that, from 1994 to 2013, 15,000 incidents of extreme weather killed more than 530,000 people. Tuesday’s announcement came as representatives from 195 countries met to discuss ways to decrease damage caused by anthropogenic climate change.

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Study: Philippines Top Casualty of Extreme Weather in 2013

Lima, Peru (Reuters / Dec. 3, 2014) – The Philippines, Cambodia, and India were the countries hardest hit by extreme weather events in 2013, according to a study unveiled on Tuesday (December 2) at UN talks in Lima on a global deal to limit climate change.

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