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Climate Risk Index 2025
February 16 , 2025
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- India has improved its Climate Risk Index (CRI) rank from seventh worst affected country globally due to extreme weather events in 2019 to 49th in 2022.
- However, historically it remains among the top 10 most affected ones by figuring as the sixth worst in long-term (1993-2022) assessment.
- The findings are part of the CRI 2025, released by the environmental think tank Germanwatch.
- India reported loss of 80,000 lives and nearly $180 billion in 400 extreme weather events in 30 years (1993-2022).
- Globally, more than 7,65,000 people lost their lives due to more than 9,400 extreme weather events in the 30 years until 2022.
- It caused economic damages totalling $4.2 trillion (inflation-adjusted).
- Storms (35%), heat waves (30%) and floods (27%) caused the most fatalities during 1993-2022.
- Italy, Spain, and Greece are the three EU nations which are among the 10 most affected countries worldwide over the past three decades.
- Dominica, China, Honduras, Myanmar and Italy are the top five most affected in the list of 1993-2022.
- India experienced devastating floods in 1993, 1998, and 2013, along with severe heat waves in 2002, 2003, and 2015.
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