2018 in review: Looking back, looking forward

China Daily | Updated: 2019-01-04 10:00
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World faces nature's wrath

A resident searches for heirlooms at her parents' home destroyed by the California Camp Fire on Dec 4. AP

Natural disasters including tsunamis, flooding, earthquakes and wildfires claimed thousands of lives in 2018, and policymakers are urged to join efforts to fight against climate change to control temperate rise and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The disasters, which included two tsunamis in Indonesia, killing more than 2,600 people, deadly floods in Japan, claiming over 200 lives, and the worst wildfires in California, causing over 100 deaths, are believed to be result of climate change. Delegates from nearly 200 countries met in Katowice, Poland, in December to discuss implementing the climate deal signed in 2015 in Paris, from which the United States withdrew.

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