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Extreme weather events across Europe have killed more than 145,000 people in the last four decades, according to a report by the EU Environment Agency.
The European Environment Agency in a report published on Thursday announced that extreme weather events such as storms, heat waves and floods caused from 85 thousand to 145 thousand human deaths in the period 1980-2020.
Also, climate-related disasters cost Europe about half a trillion euros.
Heat waves were the leading cause of weather-related deaths, accounting for more than 85 percent of the total.
Most of the deaths were caused by the 2003 heat wave, which accounts for between 50 and 75 percent of all victims of such events over the past 40 years, the report said.
Similar heat waves after 2003 caused fewer casualties as countries took steps to reduce the devastating effects caused by extreme weather events.
The survey covers 32 member countries of the European Environment Agency, including all 27 EU member states as well as Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
All regions of Europe are facing annual economic losses and deaths from extreme weather and climate events.
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