We’ve summit to prove £30bn damage to Asia

BRAZIL wants to host the UN climate summit in 2025 to make amends for former president Jair Bolsonaro backtracking on holding COP25 in 2019.

Marina Silva, an ally of newly elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said: “We lost an opportunity.”

ECONOMIC losses from drought, floods and landslides have rocketed in Asia, the World Meteorological Organisation has warned.

Last year, weather and water hazards caused £30.1billion of damage affecting 50 million people.