Overview
- India places 9th in the Climate Risk Index for 1995–2024 and 15th for the year 2024, an improvement from 8th over 1994–2023 and 10th in 2023.
- Nearly 430 extreme-weather events in India since 1995 have killed over 80,000 people, affected about 1.3 billion, and caused almost USD 170 billion in losses.
- In 2024, heavy monsoon rains and flash floods affected more than eight million people, with major impacts in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tripura.
- Globally, more than 9,700 events since 1995 caused over 830,000 deaths, affected nearly 5.7 billion people and inflicted roughly USD 4.5 trillion in damage, with 40% of people living in the 11 most-affected countries that are not rich industrialised nations.
- The report links intensifying heat waves, storms and floods primarily to human-driven climate change, notes El Niño’s influence in 2024, and calls for closing finance gaps for resilience and loss-and-damage funding.