Maharashtrais among nine states in the country that are among the planet’s top 50 regions “at risk of damage to the built Environment” from eight https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change hazards, says an international report.
The Cross Dependency Initiative (XDI), part of the Climate Risk Group, has released a first pass analysis of Gross Domestic Climate Risk (GDCR) calculating the physical climate risk to the built environment (total Infrastructure plus human cost) in over 2,600 territories around the world in 2050.
Top among the eight climate change hazards are flooding and coastal inundation, the others being: extreme heat, forest fire, Soil movement (drought-related), and extreme wind and freeze thaw. The nine states, other than Maharashtra, are Bihar, UP, Assam, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Punjab and Kerala. These figure among the top 50 provinces in Asia that are at risk of damage, according to the report. The ranking is based on a data pool representing the built environment of the terrestrial world, with an “asset level, bottom-up analysis” using over 320 million data points.