Climate Risk Index

15.02.2025

Climate Risk Index

Why in the news?   

          According to a new Climate Risk Index report, India ranks sixth among the top 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events over the last three decades from 1993-2023.

About Climate Risk Index:

• It has been published since 2006.
• It is one of the longest running annual climate impact-related indices.
• It analyses climate-related extreme weather events’ degree of effect on countries.
• This backward-looking index ranks countries by their economic and human impacts (fatalities as well as affected, injured, and homeless) with the most affected country ranked highest.
• The findings of the report are based on extreme weather event data from the International Disaster Database (Em-dat) and socio-economic data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• It is published by Germanwatch, an independent development, environmental, and human rights organisation based in Bonn and Berlin.

Highlights of the Index:

• India is among the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events between 1993 and 2022, accounting for 10% of global fatalities caused by such events, and 4.3% of the damage (in dollar terms).
• It is ranked sixth in the Climate Risk Index, 2025, highlighting its vulnerability to the climate crisis.
• Dominica, China, Honduras, Myanmar, and Italy are ranked ahead of India.
• India faced more than 400 extreme events, causing $ 180 billion in losses, and at least 80,000 fatalities.
• India was affected by floods, heatwaves, and cyclones during the period. It experienced devastating floods in 1993, 1998, and 2013, along with severe heat waves in 2002, 2003, and 2015.

                                                         Source: Down to earth

Climate Risk Index, recently in news, is prepared by:

A. World Meteorological Organization

B.World Bank

C.UNEP

D.Germanwatch

Answer  D