Top 10 countries vulnerable to climate change

Climate risk is a concept that reflects countries' vulnerability to the direct consequences — deaths and economic losses — of extreme weather events and is measured annually by the Germanwatch observatory via the Global Climate Risk Index. Episodes as the Australia's one, and other similar, remind us that some areas of the planet are more exposed than others to impacts caused by climate change.The 2020 Climate Risk Index was presented in Madrid during the last United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP25 Chile) and determines the 10 countries presently most affected by climate change — based on facts from 2018 —. These countries are: