Climate change and meteorological disasters have become grave challenges to human beings. Because of global warming and the increasing extreme weather and climate events it has caused, meteorological disasters have led to worsening socioeconomic damage throughout the world in recent decades. The United Nations reported that, between 1998 and 2017, disaster-hit countries experienced direct economic losses of US$ 2.9 trillion, of which climate-related disasters caused 77% of the total. The economic losses from extreme weather and climate events rose by 151% in comparison to 1978–1997.