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Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani said
Monday that the estimated cost of the damage caused by this
month's wave of extreme weather and flooding in the region,
which claimed eight lives, has risen to around two billion
euros.
"If I add up what the mayors of the 30-odd worst-hit
municipalities tell me, we are certainly close to two billion,"
Giani said on the sidelines of a meeting in Campi Bisenzio, near
Florence, with Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci.
"At the same time we need resources for the immediate needs, for
the ordinances to restore river banks, for the citizens who have
lost everything and businesses that have suffered damage".
The flooding caused by very heavy rainfall in Tuscany is just
the latest in a series of extreme weather events linked to
climate change caused by human greenhouse-gas emissions that
have highlighted Italy's exposure to hydrogeological risk
including flooding, mudslides and landslides.
Emilia Romagna in northern Italy is still picking itself up from
deadly floods and landslides linked to two bouts of extreme
weather that claimed 15 lives across the region in May.
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