External climate risks not taken into consideration : Government

The government claims that external climate risk rankings are not taken into consideration when developing decisions.

India is ranked ninth on the Global Climate Risk Index, but the government told Parliament on Thursday that it “does not recognise any external ranking as a basis for domestic policy formulation”. Countries are ranked by the Global Climate Risk Index according to the economic and human costs of extreme weather.

In response to a query in the Rajya Sabha, Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State for Environment, stated that “isolating the climate component of total losses remains a challenge” and that estimates of economic losses resulting from extreme weather vary greatly.

According to the Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2026 published by environment think tank Germanwatch at COP30 in Brazil’s Belem, India ranked ninth globally among countries most impacted by climate disasters over the past three decades, with nearly 430 extreme weather events killing more than 80,000 people.