Climate Risk Index 2020
According to a report released by Environment think tank, Germanwatch, India is the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change. Germanwatch, based in Bonn and Berlin (Germany), is an independent development and environmental organisation which works for sustainable global development.
Highlights of the Report
- In the Climate Risk Index 2020, India’s rank has worsened from the 14th spot in 2017 to 5th in 2018 in the global vulnerability ladder.
- India has also recorded the highest number of fatalities due to climate change and the second highest monetary losses from its impact in 2018.
- India’s high rank is due to ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 The Evolving Spectrum of Energy Sources: Key Statistics
- 2 Functional Diversity
- 3 Snowball Earth
- 4 Smooth-coated Otters
- 5 New Trapdoor Spider Species Discovered in Kolhapur Grasslands
- 6 Study on Evolution of Kaziranga as Habitat of One-Horned Rhinoceros
- 7 Tiny Squat Lobster Discovered In Lakshadweep
- 8 Loggerhead sea turtle Faces Climate Change Threat
- 9 NHAI to Develop ‘Bee Corridors’ along National Highways
- 10 16th Finance Commission on Heatwaves & Lightning as National Disasters
- 1 Operation ‘Clean Art’
- 2 IUCN 10th Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) Meeting
- 3 Growth in Global Carbon Emission Slowed
- 4 CWC Report on Heavy Metals Contaminating Indian Rivers
- 5 SC Issues Order on Completion of “Smog Tower Project”
- 6 Victoria Falls Runs Dry
- 7 Ministry of Coal to form Sustainable Development Cell
