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Each year since 2005, the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) compares the climate performance of the countries, which account for more than 90% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Traditionally, the CCPI-2024 assesses four categories: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Renewable Energy, Energy Consumption and Climate Policy. This year’s edition tracks the climate protection efforts of 63 countries (for comparison 59 countries in CCPI-2023) and the EU as an entity.
Here are the key findings:
- As in all previous years, no country does enough climate protection to receive a very good overall rating. For this reason, the top three places remain empty once again.
- This year, the best among all analyzed countries was again Denmark scoring 75.59 and ranking 4th in the Index. The country scored highly in the categories "Greenhouse Gas Emissions" and "Renewable Energy", but despite this Denmark's performance still falls short of the global warming limit of 1.5°C.
Denmark. Öresund bridge. Credit I.Ciorici
- Thanks to ambitious targets to achieve 100% renewable electricity, Estonia (72.07) improved its position and became second after Denmark, ranking 5th place.
- Somewhat unexpectedly, the Philippines ranked 6th this year. This was primarily because the country has low per capita emissions compared to other countries in the study. In the Climate Policy category, the Philippines scored poorly for its lack of a clear climate protection strategy, especially in the transportation sector, which remains unsustainable and continues to damage ecosystems and biodiversity.
- India (70.25), Netherlands (69.98), Morocco (69.82), Sweden (69.39), Chile (68.74), Norway (67.48), Portugal (67.3), Germany (65.77) and Luxembourg (65.09) also made the list of high performing countries. Notable among them is the Netherlands, an EU country that has moved up five positions from last year to become the EU leader in the Climate Policy ranking.
- The European Union (EU) ranks 16th in this year's CCPI rankings, closing the list of highscoring countries. It should be noted that the EU moved up three positions, receiving medium scores in all four categories: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Renewable Energy, Energy Consumption and Climate Policy. Fourteen EU countries ranked among the high and medium performers, with Denmark and Estonia as absolute leaders. Poland remains the only EU country with a very low rating. Overall, the EU is showing increased ambition for renewable energy, but is not contributing enough to the 1.5°C target set in the Paris Agreement.
- Looking at the performance of G20 countries, whose members account for more than 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions, only three countries/regions are among the high performers in the CCPI2024: India (7th), Germany (14th) and the EU (16th). Fifteen G20 countries received low or very low scores overall. Canada (31.55), Russia (31.00), the Republic of Korea (29.98), and Saudi Arabia (19.33) are still the worst performing G20 countries.
- The CCPI2024 edition includes four new countries: Nigeria (63.88), Pakistan (59.35), Uzbekistan (46.68), and the United Arab Emirates (24.55). Amongst them Nigeria is worth to be mentioned, which despite a rather uneven performance across all categories came in a respectable 17th place, first among countries with medium performance. One of the positive developments in the country is the fact that the Nigerian government has set a target of generating at least 30% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
By the Editorial Board
