Gross Domestic Climate Risk.

• It was released by the Cross Dependency Initiative (XDI), a global organisation specialising in climate risk analysis for regions, banks and companies.
• The“world-first” index calculated the ‘physical climate risk’ to built environments across 2,600 States and provinces globally in 2050 due to extreme weather events.

Findings

• India, China and U.S are home to 80% of most vulnerable cities and centres of economic activity.
• Jiangsu and Shandong of China topped it.
• Nine out of 50 regions in the world facing high climate risk to a fragile physical infrastructure fall in India.
  • Bihar (22nd spot), Uttar Pradesh (25th), Assam (28th), Rajasthan (32nd), Tamil Nadu (36th), Maharashtra (38th), Gujarat (48th), Punjab (50th) and Kerala (52nd) are among the most vulnerable in the country,
  • It also identified the economic capital Mumbai to be at notable risk as well.