“India experienced more than 400 extreme weather events in the past three decades, causing losses of nearly $180 billion (inflation-adjusted) and at least 80,000 fatalities. Moreover, 4.6 crore were affected overall due to extreme weather events,” the report says.The CRI report underscores India’s diverse climate risks and their varied impacts, including loss of lives and distressed migration. It states that India has faced increasingly frequent extreme weather events, including floods, heat waves, cyclones, and drought. Floods and landslides displaced millions and damaged agriculture, and cyclones devastated coastal areas.It has pointed 1998 Gujarat and 1999 Odisha cyclones, Cyclones Hudhud and Amphan in 2014 and 2020, the 1993 floods in northern India, the Uttarakhand floods of 2013, and severe floods in 2019. “Moreover, recurring and unusually intense heat waves, all with temperatures around 50°C, claimed many lives in 1998, 2002, 2003, and 2015,” the report says.
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