{"id":30109,"date":"2025-02-14T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30109"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:50:00","slug":"climate-risk-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/climate-risk-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Risk Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Climate Risk Index Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>About Climate Risk Index<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been\u00a0<strong>published since 2006<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the longest running annual climate\u00a0<strong>impact-related indices.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The CRI analyses\u00a0<strong>climate-related extreme weather events\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0degree of effect on countries. It measures the consequences of realised risks on countries.<\/li>\n<li>This backward-looking index ranks countries by their\u00a0<strong>economic and human impacts<\/strong>\u00a0(fatalities as well as affected, injured, and homeless) with the most affected country ranked highest.<\/li>\n<li>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\u00a0<strong>International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is published by\u00a0<strong>Germanwatch,<\/strong>\u00a0an independent development, environmental, and human rights organisation based in Bonn and Berlin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Highlights of the Climate Risk Index\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India was among the 10 countries most\u00a0<strong>affected by extreme weather<\/strong>\u00a0events between 1993 and 2022, accounting for 10% of global fatalities caused by such events, and 4.3% of the damage (in dollar terms).<\/li>\n<li>It was ranked\u00a0<strong>sixth in the Climate Risk Index, 2025<\/strong>, highlighting its vulnerability to the climate crisis<\/li>\n<li>Dominica, China, Honduras, Myanmar, and Italy are ranked ahead of India.<\/li>\n<li>India faced more than 400 extreme events, causing $ 180 billion in losses, and at least 80,000 fatalities.<\/li>\n<li>India was affected by floods, heatwaves, and cyclones during the period. It experienced devastating floods in 1993, 1998, and 2013, along with severe heatwaves in 2002, 2003, and 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Climate Risk Index FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the rank of India in global climate risk index 2025?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Sixth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the climate risk index?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) is available at global level (more than 150 countries), and is recognized as one of the indices for monitoring environmental risks and climate resilience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:\u00a0<\/strong>Who publishes the climate risk index?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0: Germanwatch<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/climate-change\/india-among-top-10-countries-most-affected-by-extreme-weather-events-economic-losses-amount-to-180-billion-over-last-three-decades-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Risk Index is one of the longest running annual climate impact-related indices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}