Environment & Ecology
In news: CCPI 2023 was released in COP 27, assessing 59 countries and the European Union on climate change policies and actions.
About CCPI:
- Published annually since 2005, the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an independent monitoring tool for tracking the climate protection performance of 59 countries and the EU.
- These 59 countries together account for 92% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
- Published by German Watch, New Climate Institute and Climate Action Network International based in Germany.
- The CCPI aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and enables comparison of climate protection efforts and progress made by individual countries.
- The climate protection performance is assessed in four categories:
- GHG Emissions (40% of overall score),
- Renewable Energy (20% of overall score),
- Energy Use (20% of overall score) and
- Climate Policy (20% of overall score).
India’s performance:
- India jumps 2 spots higher, and now ranks 8th.
- India has been ranked amongst top 5 countries in the world, and the best among the G20 countries, based on its Climate Change performance.
- CCPI places India as the only G-20 country in the top 10 rank.
- Denmark, Sweden, Chile and Morocco as the only four small countries that were ranked above India as 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th respectively.
- The first, second and third ranks were not awarded to any country.
- In effect therefore, India’s rank is the best amongst all large economies.
- India earned a high rating in the GHG Emissions and Energy Use categories, while a medium for Climate Policy and Renewable Energy.
- As per the CCPI report, India is on track to meet its 2030 emissions targets (compatible with a well-below-2°C scenario).
- Various demand side flagship programs such as UJALA, PAT Scheme and Standards and Labelling Programme that have contributed significantly to this notable achievement.
Source: PIB
