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and the Caribbean has seen a recent increase in extreme climatic
events, and with it a rise in the number of people affected. The
number of storms between 2000 and 2009 increased by 12 compared
to the period between 1970 and 1979. In this same time period,
floods quadrupled. The number of people affected by extreme
temperatures, forest fires, droughts, storms and floods grew
from 5 million in the 1970s to more than 40 million in the most
recent decade, both as a resul