WEATHER DISASTERS
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Natural disaster losses increased substantially. Worldwide, natural disasters caused substantially higher losses in 2021 than in the two previous years, a Munich Re report says. Based on provisional data, storms, floods, wildfires and earthquakes destroyed assets worth $280bn. Losses in the previous year amounted to $210bn, while in 2019 they were $166bn.