World facing growing number of disasters each year, UN warns
That means society needs to rethink how it finances, handles and talks about the risk of disasters and what it values the most, the report said. About 90 per cent of the spending on disasters currently is emergency relief with only 6 per cent on reconstruction and 4 per cent on prevention, Mizutori said in an interview Monday.
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