The Cost of Extreme Weather
As Hurricane Ida batters cities from New Orleans to New York, Business Weekly looks at a report that鈥檚 tracked extreme weather for the past half century.
On Business Weekly, we hear from the World Meteorological Organisation which has been tracking weather-related disasters for the last 50 years. We look at the economic and human cost of extreme weather and ask if anything can be done to protect ourselves against it. Also Covid has claimed yet more victims in India as the economic hardship brought by the coronavirus sees a rise in the number of children forced into marriage. We hear from a young girl who resisted her family鈥檚 attempt to marry her off to an older man. Plus filming for the latest Mission Impossible film has been put on hold multiple times over the last 18 months thanks to coronavirus cases on set as well as covid restrictions. Now Paramount Pictures is suing its insurance company, saying the resulting pay-out doesn鈥檛 begin to cover its losses. And as more of us head back to the office, whatever will we wear? Business Weekly is produced by Matthew Davies and presented by Lucy Burton.
(Image: Flooded streets in New Jersey after Hurricane Ida)
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