Revealed: The world's most expensive climate disasters 

Dina Lewis rescues items from her home after it was destroyed by Hurricane Ida on August 30, in Laplace, Louisiana. Picture: Scott Olson/Getty Images

The devastating financial cost of natural disasters has been laid bare in a new research report, which reveals that hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes and millions were pushed to the brink of starvation.

This year was the sixth time in history that global natural catastrophes cost more than $100bn (€88bn) in insurance and the fourth in five years. All six have come in the last 10 years.