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India ranked fourth on the climate risk index for 2017, the Germany-based independent environmental organisation Germanwatch said on 9 November 2016. Its report, published at the outset of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) at Marrakech in Morocco, said there were 4,317 fatalities in 2015 due to extreme weather events in India with a total loss of $40 billion, making it the highest ranking country in terms of economic loss. The report, the 12th edition of the Global Climate Risk Index, said: "India faced several types of extreme weather events in 2015." "After floods in February and March due to unseasonal rainfall, it suffered from one of the deadliest heat waves in world history killing more than 2,300 people in May, followed by a much weaker monsoon than normal," it said. But it said Africa is the continent that was hit hardest by extreme weather events in 2015. According to the report, four out of the 10 most impacted countries globally are African. They are Mozambique (rank one), Malawi (rank three), Ghana and Madagascar (both rank eight).