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Breaking the Link Between Extreme Weather and Extreme Poverty

Every year, we lose $520 billion due to natural disasters & gain 26 million poor people. We need to better reduce the poor’s exposure to risk. Read how we can do that in our new report: http://wrld.bg/RYke306b0KA

Breaking the Link Between Extreme Weather and Extreme Poverty

The World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), warns that natural disasters are a greater impediment to ending global poverty than previously understood.