Look: Climate related disasters in pictures

An aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the Whitsunday Islands, along the central coast of Queensland. The conservation status for Australia's Great Barrier Reef has declined from "significant concern" to "critical" due to increasing impacts associated with climate change, a new report has found.

Polar bear sow and cub on an ice floe in Norwegian arctic waters.

A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California.

A perfectly needle-like cone tornado reaches out for the ground, Campo, Colorado, USA.

Firefighters try to extinguish flames during a wildfire at the village of Kineta, near Athens,

A view of an area covered by Lily pads (Nymphaeaceae) at the Pantanal wetlands, in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like glaciers and wetlands, and has pushed Australia's Great Barrier Reef into "critical" condition, conservationists said December 2, 2020. Brazil's Pantanal Conservation Area was meanwhile badly damaged by unprecedented wildfires in 2019 and 2020.

Undated photo issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, showing European bison. Climate change is now the biggest threat to natural World Heritage, according to a report published Thursday Dec. 10, 2020, by IUCN, although it also showed the more promising revelation that populations of the European bison, Europe’s largest land mammal, have improved.

People watch as Taal Volcano erupts in Tagaytay, Cavite province, outside Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 12, 2020.

This file aerial view taken on June 27, 2020 shows orange-coloured rivers fanning out over the forested landscape near a disused copper-sulphide mine near the village called Lyovikha in the Urals.

A coal-fired power plant in Zouping, in China’s Shandong province. Speaking at an online summit on the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement, Xi Jinping said on Dec. 12, 2020 that China would reduce its carbon intensity by over 65 percent by 2030.

Volcano on New Zealand's White Island spewing steam and ash moments after it erupted. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on December 9, 2020 paid emotional tribute to victims of the White Island volcano eruption on the first anniversary of the disaster that claimed 22 lives.

Flood waters move on the street, in Pensacola, Fla. Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain. This year has seen record Atlantic hurricanes and western wildfires, devastating floods in Asia and Africa and a hot, melting Arctic. It's not just been a disastrous year, but a year of disasters.

Tourists walk amongst beach foam in the wake of cyclonic conditions at Currumbin Beach on December 15, 2020, after wild weather lashed Australia's Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland with heavy rain, strong winds and king tides.

This photo taken on December 10, 2020 and released by Reef Explorer Fiji shows and anaerial view of the Fiji's Coral Coast. The coronavirus-induced shutdown of Fiji's tourist sector is not the only crisis but with climate change posing a longer-term threat to the region's marine environment.