In News - ◦ In a new report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” , the United Nations pointed out that climate change is largely to blame for a neardoubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years. ◦ The report is published by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Hence, statement 1 is correct . ◦ The report did not touch on biological hazards and disease-related disasters like the coronavirus pandemic. Hence, statement 2 is not correct .