With 2081 deaths last year, India 5th most vulnerable to climate change

Lower income countries are the hardest hit by climate change, but have lower coping capacity, the Germanwatch report said

India is the fifth most vulnerable of 181 countries to the effects of climate change, with its poorest being the most at risk, according to a new report launched on December 4, 2019. Japan is the most vulnerable, followed by the Philippines, Germany and Madagascar.

India had the most (2,081) deaths in 2018 due to extreme weather events caused by climate change--cyclones, heavy rainfall, floods and landslides--found the 15th edition of the Global Climate Risk Index 2020 prepared by Bonn-based think-tank Germanwatch.

Overall, India’s economic losses due to climate change were the