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Though India slid one place down from ninth in 2019 to 10th this yr, the nation’s journey in the direction of climate safety has been in keeping with it enhancing its rating from 31st in 2014.
Globally not one of the international locations assessed for the annual CCPI report are, nonetheless, on the trail to satisfy their Paris Agreement dedication of protecting international warming enhance under 2 diploma celsius by the tip of the century and really to make efforts to limit it to 1.5 diploma celsius rise.
The listing is ready by assessing performances of 57 international locations and European Union (as an entire) in 4 classes – GHG emissions (40%), renewable vitality (20%), vitality use (20%) and climate coverage (20%). These 57 international locations and the EU collectively are accountable for about 90% of world GHG emissions.
The CCPI is developed by not-for-revenue organisations Germanwatch and NewClimate Institute (Germany) along with the Climate Action Network (CAN International). It is a crucial instrument to boost transparency in worldwide climate politics and permits comparability of climate safety efforts and progress made by particular person international locations.
The CCPI 2021, protecting the yr 2020, reveals that solely two G20 international locations – the UK and India – are among the many excessive rankers whereas six others – the USA, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, South Korea and Russia (52nd) – are on the backside of the index. It’s the second time in a row that the USA is citing the rear, under Saudi Arabia.
Referring to the biggest fossil gas exporting and producing international locations such because the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Australia, Stephan Singer, senior advisor, international vitality insurance policies of Climate Action Network, mentioned, “They are among the highest carbon polluters and the highest energy consumers. None of them have any useful federal climate policy in place to reduce carbon pollution. That shows the influential power of the fossil fuel industries in these countries.”
The report, protecting CCPI, reveals that total, GHG emissions have elevated barely, however are literally falling in greater than half of the international locations (32) surveyed.
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