Fig. 1: Most impactful weather and climate-related disasters of 2021 and the extent to which we know the role of human-induced climate change.

The most impactful weather events are shown as symbols. Events which can be clearly attributed to human-induced climate change are shown in red, events for which no studies but enough background literature exists are shown in yellow and events indicated in black have either been studied, but no link to climate change has been found or no literature exists. The symbols are placed approximately in the area of the occurrence of the event. The assessment is based on published literature either of the event itself (events in red) or an event off the same category in the same region (events in yellow). The references for each individual event can be found in Table S1.