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GS-III : Biodiversity & Environment Climate Change

15 March, 2021
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Data on Climate Change

Data on Climate Vulnerability

Ranking by various organizations of India’s Climate Vulnerability Status:

HSBC ranking(2018) Placed India at the TOP among 67 nations in Climate vulnerability.
Germanwatch(2020) India ranked 5^th among 181 nations in terms of climate risk.
India is 3^rd largest Carbon Emitter after China and USA.

Incidents supporting the same:

2013 Glacial flooding in Uttarakhand
Heatwave in Delhi Hyderabad.
2018 Chennai Kerala Floods.

Elsewhere

Cold wave events in Texas

Countries Status

China announced C-Neutrality by 2060.
Japan and South Korea by 2050.

Source: TH

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