Environmental Finance: China’s worst winter weather for perhaps 50 years has damaged more than a million homes, killed more than 60 people and resulted in economic losses of $7.5 billion, according to the country’s ministry of civil affairs. Nineteen provinces in China, almost two-thirds of the country, have been lashed by severe winter storms for the last four weeks. An estimated 100 million inhabitants have been directly affected by the weather, such as through the loss of power and water, said the UN …