{"id":5576,"date":"2023-01-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/even-elon-musk-could-not-afford-the-cost-of-the-worlds-worst-climate-disasters-this-year"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:32","slug":"even-elon-musk-could-not-afford-the-cost-of-the-worlds-worst-climate-disasters-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/even-elon-musk-could-not-afford-the-cost-of-the-worlds-worst-climate-disasters-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Elon Musk could not afford the cost of the world&#8217;s worst climate disasters this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot2023-01-17154531_1673959549.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The financial cost of the most destructive climate disasters of 2022 has been revealed, with a new report saying the top 10 each caused more than $4.5 billion in damage.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>All six populated continents were represented in the top 10, which took in storms, floods and droughts, including the floods that devastated Australia&#8217;s east coast in February and March, the Pakistan floods from June to September and Hurricane Ian, which lashed Cuba and the US in September and October.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Mohamed Adow, Director of Nairobi-based energy and climate think tank, Power Shift Africa, said: \u201cHere in Africa we are seeing the suffering that climate change is causing to those that have done the least to cause it.&#8221;<br\/><br\/>&#8220;2023 needs to be the year we all wake up and start to put the world on the right track.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The financial cost of the most destructive climate disasters of 2022 has been revealed, with a new report saying the top 10 each caused more than $4.5 billion in damage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[28],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-adaptation"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}