Overview
- Germanwatch released the CRI 2026 at COP30 in Belém on November 11, detailing impacts from more than 9,700 extreme-weather events recorded between 1995 and 2024.
- Worldwide, nearly 5.7 billion people were affected as storms and heat waves each accounted for about one-third of fatalities and storms caused roughly 58% of monetary losses.
- India placed ninth in the long-term ranking and fifteenth for 2024, with nearly 430 events causing over 80,000 deaths, affecting about 1.3 billion people, and inflicting almost USD 170 billion in losses.
- Dominica, Myanmar and Honduras top the 1995–2024 list of most-affected countries, while St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Chad were most affected in 2024.
- Germanwatch highlights disproportionate burdens on lower-income nations, calls for closing the climate finance gap and operationalising loss-and-damage solutions, and notes data gaps that may understate true impacts.