Germanwatch has developed Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2019 which analyses impacts of extreme weather events, in terms of fatalities and economic losses.

About the Index:

• The Global Climate Risk Index 2019 analyses to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.) in last 20 years.
  
  
• The 2019 Index is the 14^th edition of the annual analysis. For this, the most recent data available — for 2017 and from 1998 to 2017 — were taken into account.
  
  
• Methodology: It analyses quantified impacts of extreme weather events, in terms of fatalities and economic losses. It accounts for these impacts in absolute as well as relative terms.
  
  
• Developed by: The index is prepared by Germanwatch, an independent development organisation.
  
  

Key Findings:

• Countries most affected: The countries affected most in 2017 were Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka as well as Dominica. For the period from 1998 to 2017 Puerto Rico, Honduras and Myanmar rank highest.
  
  
• Loss: Altogether, more than 526 000 people died as a direct result of more than 11,500 extreme weather events; and losses between 1998 and 2017 amounted to around US$ 3.47 trillion (in Purchasing Power Parities).
  
  
• India and its neighbours: Neighbours are worse hit than India. Myanmar is at rank 3, Bangladesh at 7, Pakistan at 8 and Nepal at 11 and India at 14 for the year 2017.
  
  
• Of the ten most affected countries and territories (1998–2017), eight were developing countries in the low income or lower-middle income country group. This reconfirms earlier results that less developed countries are generally more affected than industrialised countries.
  
  

Link between climate change and extreme weather events

• Climate change-related impacts stemming from extreme events such as heat waves, extreme precipitation and coastal flooding can already be observed as the Fifth Assessment Report of the 2014 IPCC stresses.
  
  
• Due to climate change, extreme events will become more frequent or more severe in future.
  
  
• Way ahead: Therefore, effective climate change mitigation is in the self-interest of all countries worldwide. Countries should adopt the 'rulebook' needed for implementing the Paris Agreement, including the global adaptation goal and adaptation communication guidelines
  
  

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