Titled “Global Climate Risk Index 2021”, the report by Germanwatch was released on 25th January 2021 and showed Pakistan drop from 5th most vulnerable country to climate change, to the 8th position.
The think-tank said it took into account most data from 2000 to 2019 to analyze and rank “to what extent the countries and regions have been affected by impacts of climate-related extreme weather event” such as storms, floods, and heatwaves.