Funding for climate disasters is 'failing' those most vulnerable, says IFRC

FILE PHOTO: Children play in the floodwaters at the airstrip near a WFP helicopter, after the River Nile broke the dykes in Pibor, Greater Pibor Administrative Area, South Sudan October 6, 2020. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate-related events is surging, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in a report on Tuesday, but funding is not getting to where it is needed most.

Cases of floods, storms and heatwaves per decade have increased by nearly 35 percent since the 1990s, affecting 1.7 billion people over the last 10 years and killing some 410,000, according to the IFRC's 378-page report "Come Heat or High Water".