Climate Risk Index 2025:
The international environmental think tank ‘Germanwatch’ has released the Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2025.
Findings of Climate Risk Index 2025:
- Between 1993 and 2022, over 765,000 lives were lost, resulting in economic losses of USD 4.2 trillion.
- The floods, droughts, and storms were the leading causes of global displacement.
- In 1993-2022, Dominica, China, and Honduras were the top-3 countries affected by extreme weather events.
- Myanmar, Italy, and India were among the other highly impacted countries.
- Pakistan, Belize, and Italy were the top-3 affected in 2022.
- 7 of the 10 worst-affected countries are low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
- Impact on India: India ranked 6th most affected country (1993-2022), accounting for 80,000 fatalities (10% of global) due to extreme weather events and 4.3% of global economic losses (USD 180 billion).
- India has faced severe floods (1993, 2013, 2019), intense heat waves (~50°C in 1998, 2002, 2003, 2015), and destructive cyclones like Gujarat (1998), Odisha (1999), Hudhud (2014), and Amphan (2020).
- Climate Risk Index ranks countries based on their vulnerability to extreme weather events, assessing human and economic losses caused by climate-induced disasters.
- Released annually since 2006, covering data from the past 30 years.
- CRI assesses the impacts of extreme weather events on countries across six key indicators: economic losses, fatalities, and affected people, both in absolute and relative terms.
