Indices

Question 1

Global Resilience Index initiative

Answer 1

Launched at COP26 by coalition of 10 orgs including CDRI, CCRI, UNDRR. It is world’s first open source reference index.

Question 2

Annual Frontiers report - Noise, Blazes, Mismatches

Answer 2

UNEP
On Urban noise pollutions; wildfire; actions to be taken by govt and civil society to combat triple planetary crisis of Climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

Question 3

Groundswell report

Answer 3

World Bank
It examined how the impacts of slow-onset climate change, such as water scarcity, decreasing crop productivity, and rising sea levels, could lead to millions of what it describes as “climate migrants” by 2050.

Question 4

Global Innovation Index

Answer 4

46th rank in GII 2021; by WIPO (specialised agency of UN)
Top 5 = Switzerland, Sweden, US, UK
Indicators = Institutions, Infrastructure, Human capital, Creative output, Technology output, Business sophistication, market sophistication.

Question 5

India Innovation Index

Answer 5

NITI Aayog & Institute for competitiveness. Karnataka > Maharashtra > Tamil Nadu

Some unconventional parameters - internet subscribers, demographic dividend

Question 6

Global Economic Prospects

Answer 6

World Bank (released twice a year)

Global growth in 2023 - 1.7%
India - 6.6%

Question 7

Scientific assessment of Ozone depletion

Answer 7

WMO, UNEP, NOAA, NASA

If current policies are in place, Ozone levels will recover to 1980 level by 2040.

Question 8

Global Risks report

Answer 8

WEF