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National Climate Vulnerability Report
April 23 , 2021
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- The Department of Science and Technology recently launched the National Climate Vulnerability Report.
- It identifies the most vulnerable states and districts in India with respect to current climate risk and key drivers of vulnerability.
- According to the report, eight Eastern States in the country are highly vulnerable to climate change.
- They are Mizoram, Bihar, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam.
- Assam, Jharkhand and Bihar have more than 60% of districts in the category of “highly vulnerable districts”.
- Jharkhand received the highest Vulnerable Index of 0.67.
- Jharkhand was followed by Mizoram, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh in the descending order of the index.
- They were named as “Relatively highly vulnerable state”.
- Maharashtra received the lowest Vulnerability Index of 0.42.
- Apart from Maharashtra, the other comparatively least vulnerable states are Goa, Nagaland, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Haryana.
- They were named as the “Relatively Low Vulnerable states”.
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