{"id":27239,"date":"2025-10-10T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=27239"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:35:06","slug":"pakistan-and-india-whats-the-global-cost-of-natural-disasters-business-and-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=27239","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan and India: What\u2019s the global cost of natural disasters? | Business and Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Floods in Pakistan and India re-ignite the debate on the mounting cost of global disasters.<\/p>\n<p>Global natural disasters are striking harder and more often, with climate emergencies now breaking records year after year.<br \/>The UN says a child born today faces a nearly nine in 10 chance of experiencing a catastrophic flood during their lifetime.<br \/>The financial toll is staggering, with more than $200bn a year.<br \/>That could rise to as much as $2.3 trillion, once knock-on effects are included.<br \/>But who will pay when the storms hit?<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is that question more pressing than in Pakistan and in India, which have been hit by one of the worst floods in decades.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 10 Oct 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">10 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floods in Pakistan and India re-ignite the debate on the mounting cost of global disasters. Global natural disasters are striking harder and more often, with climate emergencies now breaking records year after year.The UN says a child born today faces a nearly nine in 10 chance of experiencing a catastrophic flood during their lifetime.The financial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[303,342,4396,1404,1123,426,2150,2757,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-27239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cost","10":"tag-disasters","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-global","13":"tag-india","14":"tag-natural","15":"tag-pakistan","16":"tag-whats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}