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Climate Change Is Hindering Global Growth and Prosperity, U.N. Says
In the five decades between 1970 and 2021, extreme climate events caused more than two million deaths and led to economic losses of $4.3 trillion, 60 percent of which occurred in developing countries, a U.N...