Report name: ‘The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index’.
About the Index:
It is the first comprehensive analysis of climate risk from a child’s perspective.
It ranks countries based on children’s exposure to climate and environmental shocks, such as Cyclones and Heatwaves, as well as their vulnerability to those shocks, based on their access to essential services.
Pakistan (14th), Bangladesh (15th), Afghanistan (25th) and India (26th) are among four South Asian countries where children are at extremely high risk of the impacts of the climate crisis.
The assessment is based on the aggregated performance of five parameters of cybersecurity; Legal measures, technical measures, organisational measures, capacity development, and cooperation.
The US ranked 1st followed by the UK and Saudi Arabia tied on the 2nd position and Estonia was 3rd.
India has ranked 10th in the index by moving up 37 places.
India secured the 4th position in the Asia Pacific region.
The index takes into account more than 30 qualitative and quantitative factors spanning five broad categories: stability (25%), healthcare (20%), culture and environment (25%), education (10%), and infrastructure (20%).
Top 3 Liveable Cities:
Auckland (New Zealand), Osaka (Japan), Adelaide (Australia).
Bottom 3 Liveable Cities:
Damascus (Syria), Lagos (Nigeria), Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea).
The theme for WPFD 2021 is “Information as a Public Good".
The day was proclaimed by the UNGA in 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO’s General Conference in 1991.
The day also marks the 1991 Windhoek Declaration adopted by UNESCO which is aimed towards the ‘development of a free, independent and pluralistic press’.
Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) or Reporters Without Borders.
About the Index:
It ranks countries and regions according to the level of freedom available to journalists. However it is not an indicator on the quality of journalism.
The parameters include
Pluralism
Media independence
Media environment and self-censorship
legislative framework
Transparency
Quality of the infrastructure that supports the production of news and information.
Norway has topped for five consecutive years, followed by Finland and Denmark.
China is ranked 177, and is only above North Korea at 179 and Turkmenistan at 178.
Examines the likelihood of frontier technologies widening existing inequalities and creating new ones.
Addresses the national and international policies, instruments and institutional reforms that are needed to create a more equal world of opportunity for all.
India was the biggest ‘overperformer’ in frontier technologies than the country's per capita GDPwould suggest.
India’s actual index ranking is 43, while the estimated one based on per capita income is 108.
The index ranks 180 countries and territories by the perceived level of public sector corruption according to experts and business people.
It uses a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
The highest scoring countries are Denmark and New Zealand, with scores of 88, followed by Finland, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland, with scores of 85 each.
South Sudan and Somalia are the bottom Countries with scores of 12 each.
India’s rank is 86th among 180 countries with a score of 40.
It emphasizes that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone.
Based on three Basic Dimensions:
A long and healthy life
Access to knowledge
A decent standard of living
The index forms a part of Human Development Report (HDR) 2020, whose other components include:
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI),
Gender Development Index (GDI),
Gender Inequality Index (GII) and
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
Norway topped the index, followed by Ireland and Switzerland.
In the Asian region; Singapore (11), Saudi Arabia (40) and Malaysia (62) were at the top representing “very high human development".
India (131), Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Cambodia, Kenya and Pakistan were ranked among countries with “medium human development".
United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft and the University of Stuttgart in Germany.
About the Index:
It is part of the World Risk Report 2020.
It describes the disaster risk for various countries and regions through the multiplication of exposure and vulnerability.
Among continents, Oceania is at the highest risk, followed by Africa and the Americas.
Vanuatu (South Pacific Ocean) is the country with the highest disaster risk worldwide.
Africa accounts for more than two-thirds of the most vulnerable countries.
India has ranked 89th among 181 countries and is fourth-most-at-risk in South Asia, after Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Represents the articulation of the comprehensive nature of the Global Goals under the 2030 Agenda.
Monitors the country’s progress on the goals through data-driven assessment.
Computes goal-wise scores (from 0-100) on the 16 SDGs for each State and Union Territory.
States and Union Territories are classified in four categories based on their SDG India Index score: Aspirant (0–49), Performer (50–64), Front-Runner (65–99), Achiever (100).
Kerala retained its position at the top for the third time followed by Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh.
Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam were the worst performing States.
It seeks to examine local government practices in municipalitiesacross areas of services, finance, policy, technology and governance.
The MPI examined the sectoral performance of 111 municipalities (with Delhi being assessed separately for NDMC, and the three Municipal Corporations).
In Million+ category, Indore, Surat and Bhopal are the highest ranked.
In the Less than Million category, NDMC, Tirupati and Gandhinagar are top performers.
About the Ease of Living Index:
It provides a comprehensive understanding of participating cities across India based on quality of life, economic-ability of a city, and its sustainability and resilience.
In Million+ Category, the top performers are Bengaluru, Pune and Ahmedabad.
Amritsar, Guwahati, Bareilly, Dhanbad and Srinagar are the worst performers.
In the Less than Million Category, top performers are Shimla, Bhubaneshwar and Silvassa.
Aligarh, Rampur, Namchi, Satna and Muzaffarpur are the worst performers.
