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7 Million People Displaced by Extreme Weather in First Half of 2019

HeadlineSep 13, 2019

This comes as a new report finds extreme weather events around the globe displaced a record 7 million people during the first six months of the year. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre warns in its midyear report, “In today’s changing climate, mass displacement triggered by extreme weather events is becoming the norm.”

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