Climate risks grow, hope for action fades

Between 1993 and 2022, India was the sixth worst-affected country in terms of fatalities and damage (80,000 deaths and losses amounting to $180 billion) sustained from extreme weather events (EWEs) wrought by the climate crisis, according to the Germanwatch Global Climate Risk Index, 2025.

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Seven of the 10 worst affected countries (including India), ranked on the basis of EWE data from an international database and socioeconomic data from the IMF, are low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

This reinforces the developing world's contention that it has had to bear a disproportionate burden of climate afflictions despite having contributed little to the crisis.