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New Delhi: The government on Thursday told the Parliament that although India ranks ninth on the Global Climate Risk Index, it “does not recognise any external ranking as a basis for domestic policy formulation”.

The Global Climate Risk Index ranks countries based on the human and economic toll of extreme weather events.

Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said estimates of economic losses from extreme weather vary widely and that “isolating the climate component of total losses remains a challenge”.

According to the Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2026 published by environment think tank Germanwatch at COP30 in Brazil’s Belem, India ranked ninth globally among countries most impacted by climate disasters over the past thre

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