World cannot cope with climate: CCPI
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Latest ‘The Climate Change Performance Index 2021’ shows that not a single country in the world implements the guidelines compliant with the assumptions of the Paris climate agreement of 2015. Poland, which still doesn’t have a long-term energy strategy, ranked low.
The report was prepared jointly by Germanwatch, the NewClimate Institute, and the Climate Action Network (CAN). 57 countries around the world and the European Union were assessed. Together, they are responsible for 90 percent of global emissions. The ranking assessed four categories: greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use, and climate policy.
The ranking authors intentionally left the top three positions unfilled. This is a sign that five years after the adoption of the Paris climate agreement, no country in the world is on a path that would be consistent with the document's assumptions. Sweden was rated the highest. Great Britain ranked fifth, and the United States ranked 61. (57 + EU + 3 free).
Sweden has been a world leader for four years. But even this country cannot be considered a climate role model, moving towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Sweden has achieved very good results in the areas of greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, and climate policy. Sweden has been at the forefront in each of these areas.
The United States is at the other end of the ranking. The USA is in the last position for the second year in a row, after Saudi Arabia. The US scored "very low" in all categories except renewable energy.
Compared to last year's listing, Poland advanced by 2 positions, from 50 to 48.
"We are left alone in the European Union, as the only one not supporting climate neutrality until 2050. Our National Energy and Climate Plan leaves coal as fuel in over 50 percent still in 2030. We do not have a long-term low-emission strategy that should be included and submitted to the European Commission this year. The promotion of electric cars and buses, which was supposed to be the forerunner of pro-climate changes in transport, did not work out completely. No wonder that, for example, Morocco, is far ahead of us," Dr. Wojciech Szymalski, president of the Institute for Sustainable Development, who participated in the work on the report, said.
