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As per the Express Tribune, Pakistan’s ranking has been downgraded to 16 in 2010-2011 from its previous position at 29 a year earlier in the list of countries most vulnerable to disasters due to climate change, according to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index by Maple Croft, an organisation which maps over 100 global risks.
"The government needs to prioritise disaster risk reduction and invest in systems today to reduce the cost of damage in the future," said Adviser on Disaster Risk Reduction, OXFAM, Javeria Afzal.