Denmark, Switzerland and Australia rank 1, 2 and 3 in terms of resiliency to climate change, according to the GAIN Index 2012, an open-access, open-source and open-data online tool that in addition to summarizing, scoring and ranking 176 countries’ resiliency to climate change can be used by public and private sector planners and decision makers to better prioritize climate change adaptation investments.

Developed by the Global Adaptation Institute (GAIN), the second annual update of GAIN Index was launched October 15 at a public Princeton University seminar  “to guide investments in the urgent need to adapt” to the challenges posed by climate change.

The 2012 GAIN Index is a new and improved version that in addition to analyzing data in water, food and agriculture, health and infrastructure – which was for the 2011 GAIN Index – now also includes new measures of vulnerability to do with human habitats and ecosystems services.

“In recent months, we have seen people suffering, companies shutting down and jobs lost due to weather events,” GAIN Founding CEO Dr. Juan José Daboub stated at the October 15 launch event. “From Bangkok, Thailand, to the U.S., these challenges have lost lives and affected livelihoods.

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