Climate Change Performance Index

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2023 Climate Change Performance Index

The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is a scoring system designed by the German environmental and development organisation Germanwatch e.V. to enhance transparency in international climate politics. On the basis of standardised criteria, the index evaluates and compares the climate protection performance of 63 countries and the European Union (EU) (status CCPI 2022), which are together responsible for more than 90% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.[1]

The CCPI was first published in 2005 and an updated version is presented at the UN Climate Change Conference annually. Germanwatch publishes the index in cooperation with the NewClimate Institute and Climate Action Network International and with financial support from Barthel Foundation.[2] The most important results are available in German, English, French and Spanish.

Methodology

In 2017, the underlying methodology of the CCPI was revised and adapted to the new climate policy framework of the Paris Agreement from 2015.[3] The CCPI was extended in order to include the measurement of a country’s progress towards the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the country’s 2030 targets. The national performances are assessed based on 14 indicators in the following four categories:

1. GHG emissions (weighting 40%)

2. Renewable energy (weighting 20%)

3. Energy use (weighting 20%)

4. Climate policy (weighting 20%)

The three categories "GHG emissions", "renewable energy" and "energy use" are each defined by four equally weighted indicators: (1) current level, (2) recent developments (5-year trend), (3) 2 °C compatibility of the current performance, and (4) 2 °C compatibility of 2030 target. These 12 indicators are complemented by two indicators, measuring the country's performance regarding its national climate policy framework and implementation as well as regarding international climate diplomacy in the category "climate policy". The data for the "climate policy" category is assessed annually in a comprehensive research study. Its basis is the performance rating by climate change experts from non-governmental organisations, universities and think tanks within the countries that are evaluated. In a questionnaire, the respondents give a rating on the most important measures of their governments. The results are rated as very high, high, medium, low, or very low.[4]

Results

The most recent results illustrate the main regional differences in climate protection efforts and performance within the 57 evaluated countries and the EU. According to the CCPI, none of the countries has yet achieved a performance across all indicators that can be qualified as very high, because no country fulfills the requirements to limit global warming to well below 2 °C, as agreed in the Paris Agreement. This is why the first three places in the final ranking remain unoccupied. In 2023, the CCPI did not evaluate the performance of Ukraine due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the CCPI index for 2023, Denmark led the index followed by Sweden and Chile.[5] The last three were Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan.[6][7][a]

2023 results

Rank Country Score
1 - -
2 - -
3 - -
4  Denmark 79.61
5  Sweden 73.28
6  Chile 69.54
7  Morocco 67.44
8  India 67.35
9  Estonia 65.14
10  Norway 64.47
11  United Kingdom 63.07
12  Philippines 62.75
13  Netherlands 62.24
14  Portugal 61.55
15  Finland 61.24
16  Germany 61.11
17  Luxembourg 60.76
18  Malta 60.42
19  European Union (27) 59.96
20  Egypt 59.37
21  Lithuania 59.21
22   Switzerland 58.61
23  Spain 58.59
24  Greece 57.52
25  Latvia 56.81
26  Indonesia 54.59
27  Colombia 54.50
28  France 52.97
29  Italy 52.90
30  Croatia 52.04
31  Mexico 51.77
32  Austria 51.56
33  New Zealand 50.55
34  Slovak Republic 50.12
35  Cyprus 49.39
36  Bulgaria 49.15
37  Ireland 48.47
38  Brazil 48.39
39  Belgium 48.38
40  Viet Nam 48.31
41  Slovenia 48.16
42  Thailand 47.23
43  Romania 47.09
44  South Africa 45.69
45  Czech Republic 44.16
46  Belarus 43.69
47  Turkey 43.32
48  Algeria 42.26
49  Argentina 41.19
50  Japan 40.85
51  China 38.80
52  United States 38.53
53  Hungary 38.51
54  Poland 37.94
55  Australia 36.26
56  Malaysia 33.51
57  Taiwan 28.35
58  Canada 26.47
59  Russian Federation 25.28
60  South Korea 24.91
61  Kazakhstan 24.61
62  Saudi Arabia 22.41
63  Islamic Republic of Iran 18.77

2022 results

Rank Country Score
1 - -
2 - -
3 - -
4  Denmark 76.67
5  Sweden 74.22
6  Norway 73.29
7  United Kingdom 73.09
8  Morocco 71.60
9  Chile 69.51
10  India 69.20
11  Lithuania 64.89
12  Malta 64.18
13  Germany 63.53
14  Finland 62.41
15   Switzerland 61.70
16  Portugal 61.11
17  France 61.01
18  Luxembourg 60.80
19  Netherlands 60.44
20  Ukraine 60.40
21  Egypt 59.74
22  European Union (27) 59.21
23  Philippines 58.98
24  Greece 58.22
25  Colombia 57.87
26  Latvia 57.73
27  Indonesia 57.17
28  Mexico 56.05
29  Croatia 55.96
30  Italy 55.39
31  Thailand 55.01
32  Estonia 54.98
33  Brazil 54.86
34  Spain 54.35
35  New Zealand 54.03
36  Romania 52.43
37  Austria 52.35
38  China 52.20
39  South Africa 51.13
40  Slovak Republic 50.67
41  Turkey 50.53
42  Cyprus 50.52
43  Viet Nam 49.21
44  Bulgaria 48.71
45  Japan 48.53
46  Ireland 47.86
47  Argentina 47.08
48  Belarus 46.66
49  Belgium 45.90
50  Slovenia 43.28
51  Czech Republic 42.15
52  Poland 40.63
53  Hungary 40.41
54  Algeria 39.91
55  United States 37.39
56  Russian Federation 34.73
57  Malaysia 33.74
58  Taiwan 30.70
59  Australia 30.06
60  South Korea 26.74
61  Canada 26.03
62  Islamic Republic of Iran 25.66
63  Saudi Arabia 24.25
64  Kazakhstan 19.23

2021 results

Rank Country Score
1 (None achieved 1-3 rank)
2
3
4 Sweden 74.42
5 United Kingdom 69.66
6 Denmark 69.42
7 Morocco 67.59
8 Norway 64.45
9 Chile 64.05
10 India 63.98

2020 results

Rank Country Score
1 - -
2 - -
3 - -
4  Sweden 75.77
5  Denmark 71.14
6  Morocco 70.63
7  United Kingdom 69.80
8  Lithuania 66.22
9  India 66.02
10  Finland 63.25
11  Chile 62.88
12  Norway 61.14
13  Luxembourg 60.91
14  Malta 60.60
15  Latvia 60.75
16   Switzerland 60.61
17  Ukraine 60.60
18  France 57.90
19  Egypt 57.53
20  Croatia 56.97
21  Brazil 55.82
22  European Union (28) 55.82
23  Germany 55.78
24  Romania 54.85
25  Portugal 54.10
26  Italy 53.92
27  Slovak Republic 52.69
28  Greece 52.59
29  Netherlands 50.89
30  China 48.16
31  Estonia 48.05
32  Mexico 47.01
33  Thailand 46.76
34  Spain 46.03
35  Belgium 45.73
36  South Africa 45.67
37  New Zealand 45.67
38  Austria 44.74
39  Indonesia 44.65
40  Belarus 44.18
41  Ireland 44.04
42  Argentina 43.77
43  Czech Republic 42.93
44  Slovenia 41.91
45  Cyprus 41.66
46  Algeria 41.45
47  Hungary 41.17
48  Turkey 40.76
49  Bulgaria 40.12
50  Poland 39.98
51  Japan 39.03
52  Russia 37.8
53  Malaysia 34.21
54  Kazakhstan 33.39
55  Canada 31.01
56  Australia 30.75
57  Iran 28.41
58  South Korea 26.75
59  Taiwan 23.33
60  Saudi Arabia 23.03
61  United States 18.60

2019 results

Rank Country Score
1 - -
2 - -
3 - -
4  Sweden 76
5  Morocco 70.48
6  Lithuania 70.47
7  Latvia 68.31
8  United Kingdom 65.92
9   Switzerland 65.42
10  Malta 65.06
11  India 62.93
12  Norway 62.80
13  Finland 62.61
14  Croatia 62.39
15  Denmark 61.96
16  European Union (28) 60.65
17  Portugal 60.54
18  Ukraine 60.09
19  Luxembourg 59.92
20  Romania 59.42
21  France 59.30
22  Brazil 59.29
23  Italy 58.69
24  Egypt 57.49
25  Mexico 56.82
26  Slovak Republic 56.61
27  Germany 55.18
28  Netherlands 54.11
29  Belarus 53.31
30  Greece 50.86
31  Belgium 50.63
32  Czech Republic 49.73
33  China 49.60
34  Argentina 49.01
35  Spain 48.97
36  Austria 48.78
37  Thailand 48.71
38  Indonesia 48.68
39  South Africa 48.25
40  Bulgaria 48.11
41  Poland 47.59
42  Hungary 46.79
43  Slovenia 44.90
44  New Zealand 44.61
45  Estonia 44.37
46  Cyprus 44.34
47  Algeria 42.10
48  Ireland 40.84
49  Japan 40.63
50  Turkey 40.22
51  Malaysia 38.08
52  Russia 37.59
53  Kazakhstan 36.47
54  Canada 34.26
55  Australia 31.27
56  Taiwan 28.80
57  South Korea 28.53
58  Iran 23.94
59  United States 18.82
60  Saudi Arabia 8.82

External links

References

  1. ^ Hellman, Rachel. "U.S. Lags in Latest Climate Protection Rankings". Retrieved 7 September 2022. Developed by Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute and the Climate Action Network, the CCPI is an independent monitoring tool for tracking countries' climate protection performance.
  2. ^ Burck, Jan; Uhlich, Thea; Bals, Christoph; Höhne, Niklas; Nascimento, Leonardo; Tamblyn, Ana; Reuther, Jonas (November 2021). "Climate Change Performance Index 2022" (PDF). Germanwatch. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-11. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. ^ Prerna, Lidhoo (12 November 2021). "Top three spots at the Climate Change Performance Index 2022 remain empty, India at No. 10". Business Today.
  4. ^ Burck, Jan; Hagen, Ursula; Bals, Christoph; Helling, Violeta; Höhne, Niklas; Nascimento, Leonardo (10 December 2019). "Background and Methodology" (PDF). Germanwatch. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-28. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Denmark at top three on Climate Change Performance". Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Iran ranks "very low" at Climate Change performance". www.tehrantimes.com. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Ranking at Official website". Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  8. ^ Latrech, Oumaima. "2022 Climate Change Performance Index: Morocco 5th Best Country Worldwide". Morocco World News.
  9. ^ "Morocco rates high in climate-change performance index". Business Standard India. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

Notes

  1. ^ In the CCPI index for 2020, Sweden led the ranking, followed by Denmark and Morocco.[8][9] The last three ranks were taken by the United States, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan.
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