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28 Apr, 2021
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| GS-III | Global Climate Risk Index 2021 | Biodiversity & Environment |
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GS-Paper-3: Environment – UPSC PRELIMS – Mains Application
The Global Climate Risk Index analyses to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The report is annually released by Germanwatch, an environmental think tank and sustainable development lobbyist. The 16th edition of the Global Climate Risk Index was released on January 25, 2021. The Global CRI 2021 displayed data based on human impacts (fatalities) and direct economic losses due to extreme weather events in 2019 and between 2000 and 2019.
** India was ranked the seventh worst-hit country in 2019 in the Global Climate Risk Index 2021.
Global Climate Risk Index
Highlights of the 2020 year
Global prospects
The burden of development
Data about India
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Tropical Cyclones – One of the Biggest weather-related loss events in 2019 A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure centre, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and/or squalls. Know the formation, characteristics and facts related to Tropical Cyclones at the linked article. In the Climate Risk Index 2021 tropical cyclones led to six countries being listed among the bottom ten:
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Source: German Watch
Covid-19- New Vaccination strategy, a boon or a bane? New Vaccine strategy to combat COVID-19 Two key elements of the new Vaccine strategy, which will be implemented from May 1 are: First, the phased roll-out of the vaccination drive initiated on January 16 under which the vaccine-e
Covid-19 and issue of malnutrition Introduction The political and social handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have added to the persisting issues of food insecurity faced by millions. India consistently has ranked poorly in GHI (ranking 102 among 117 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2019
Global minimum tax rate- Issues and advantages Introduction United States Secretary's proposal for global coordination of corporate taxation has huge implications. She has proposed a global minimum tax rate. View of World Bank chief on Global minimum tax rate David R. Mal
Leaders’ Summit on Climate- India-US Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership Introduction Recently, the Leaders' Summit on Climate was convened by the US President virtually. 40 world leaders were invited to the event to underscore the urgency of stronger climate action.
India and Bangladesh relationship since 1971 (The Hindu Editorial) Introduction Bangladesh and India both celebrated the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s Independence recently, alongside the birth centenary of ‘Banghabandu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The creation of Bangla
Judicial federalism in India Introduction In comparison to the legislature and the executive, what the judiciary can deliver in the realm of socio-economic rights is limited. Courts cannot build better health infrastructure or directly supply oxygen; neither are they functionally bound t
What Israel wants in Syria? Introduction Ten years since the outbreak of the crisis in Syria in 2011, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad seems to have won the civil war. Background of Assad’s victory over the civil war If in 2015, before the Russian intervention, Mr.
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