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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

Globally, about a thousand times as much is spent on hydrocarbon exploration and extraction than on the mitigation of the climate change that results from burning fossil fuels (Mechler et al. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. GNCSODR 2015. UNDRR 2019b. GAR Distilled.