According to the World Risk Index (WRI) 2020, India is ‘poorly prepared’ to deal with ‘climate reality’, due to which it is vulnerable to extreme natural disasters.
Among continents, Oceania is at the highest risk, followed by Africa and the Americas.
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World Risk Index
It is part of the World Risk Report 2020 released by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bundnis Entwicklung Hilft and the University of Stuttgart in Germany.
It is calculated on a country-by-country basis, through the multiplication of exposure and vulnerability.
It describes the disaster risk for various countries and regions.
It is released annually since 2011.
It indicates which countries are in the greatest need to strengthen measures for coping with and adapting to extreme natural events.
