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World Risk Index 2020

  • India is ranked 89th among 181 countries on the World Risk Index (WRI) 2020, a 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.
  • The Report says that India was ‘poorly prepared’ to deal with ‘climate reality’, due to which it was more vulnerable to extreme natural disasters.
  • The country was fourth-most-at- risk in South Asia on the index, after Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  • The Pacific island state of Vanuatu leads the index as the country with ....
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