The Global Climate Risk Index 2020 has listed India as the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change. The report also claims that the highest number of deaths due to climate change is recorded from India.
Along with that, India was also victim to second highest monetary losses from the impact of climate change in 2018, according to this report.
The report was made and released by a think tank called Germanwatch, which analysed 181 countries to quantify the impacts of climate change and global warming. Assessing on various parameters of economic losses, losses to GDP and lives lost, the report concluded that Japan is most vulnerable to climate change, followed by Philippines, Germany, Madagascar and India.
According to the report, India was severly affected by the southwest monsoon of 2018 along with the Kerala floods that killed over 300 people, reported Hindustan Times.
“India east coast was also hit by Cyclones Titli and Gaja in October and November 2018. With wind speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour, cyclone Titli killed at least eight people and left around 450 000 without electricity,”According to the report, as quoted by Hindustan Times
In the year 2018, Japan was subjected to extreme weather events, resulting in the country being on the top of the list.
According to the report analysis, torrential rainfall in the month of July killed more than 200 people and left 5,000 houses damaged. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Typhoon Jebi made its landfall in the country in September 2018 causing massive destruction.
The report also claims that Germany in the 2018, experienced its second hottest year with temperatures 2.9 degree Celsius above average temperature. This led to the death of 1,234 people.
(With Inputs from Hindustan Times)
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