Climate Change Performance Index 2019: India placed at 11th position

Climate Change Performance Index 2019: India placed at 11th position: Details, Findings, Highlights

The Climate Change Performance Index 2019 was released on the sidelines of COP24 UN Summit that held in Katowice, Poland.

The Climate Change Performance Index 2019 was produced by the New Climate Institute, Climate Action Network, and Germanwatch.

1. No countries were in the top three ranks because none did well in all categories assessed. But among the league of nations, Sweden topped as the 4th country (for the second time as of 2017) followed by Morocco in the 5th position.

2. The European Union as a whole rose from 21st to 16th place. But Germany fell from 22nd to 27th because of its reliance on lignite coal, a big source of greenhouse gas emissions.

3. The Countries Ranked at bottom are: Saudi Arabia (60), USA(59), Iran (58), Korea (57), Chinese Taipei (56),Australia (55),Canada (54),Russian Federation (52),Turkey (50),Japan (49).

4. India ranked 11th and other neighboring countries of India ranked the following: China (33). Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar were not assessed.

5. The Countries were evaluated by 6 parameters:

GHG Emissions,

Renewable Energy,

Energy Use,

Paris compatibility of their current status and targets sets,

Countries’ ambition and

Progress in the field of Climate policy.

6. The evaluation was done on 56 countries and the European Union (EU) and the countries were categorised into 6 color-coded section. They were as per the rankings in the list:

Very High color-coded ‘Dark Green’,

High color-coded ‘Light Green’,

Medium color-coded ‘Light Yellow’,

Low color-coded ‘Dark Yellow’,

Very Low color-coded ‘Dark Red’,

Not assessed color-coded ‘White’.