The climate change performance index
Results 2018
Published on 15. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
24 pages
978-3-943704-59-4 (ISBN)
Description
Recognizing the urgency to take immediate action in protecting
the global climate, the 21st Conference of the Parties, held
in December 2015 in Paris, made a groundbreaking achievement
in adopting the goal to limit global warming to "well
below" 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Under the Paris Agreement, for the first time climate action
was anchored in the context of international law. This requires
countries to make their own unique contribution to the prevention
of dangerous climate change. The next crucial step
to follow this agreement is the rapid implementation by the
signing parties of concrete measures to make their individual
contributions to the global goal. For the past 13 years, the
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) has been keeping
track of countries' efforts in combating climate change. The
varying initial positions, interests and strategies of the numerous
countries make it difficult to distinguish their strengths
and weaknesses and the CCPI has been an important tool in
contributing to a clearer understanding of national and international
climate policy.
To demonstrate existing measures more accurately and to
encourage steps toward effective climate policy, we evaluated
the design of the CCPI this year with several achievements:
For the first time, it is monitoring the development of all greenhouse
gas emissions of the 56 countries and the EU that are
assessed in the CCPI. In addition to that, the index now is
suited even better to measure how well countries are on track
to the global goals of the Paris Agreement. It does so by not
only comparing countries by their development and recent
trends in the three categories "GHG Emissions", "Renewable
Energy" and "Energy Use", but also the 2°C-compatibility of
their current status and future targets in each of these categories.
The index also continues to evaluate countries' ambition
and progress in the field of climate policy.
The following publication is issued by Germanwatch, the
NewClimate Institute and the Climate Action Network.
However, only with the help of around 300 energy and climate
experts from all over the world we are able to include a review
of each country's national and international policies. The
review charts the efforts that have been made to avoid dangerous
climate change, and also evaluates the various countries'
current efforts regarding the implementation of the Paris
Agreement. We greatly appreciate these experts for their time,
efforts and knowledge in contributing to this publication. The
experts are mainly representatives of NGOs who work within
their respective countries, fighting for the implementation of
the climate policy that we all so desperately need.
the global climate, the 21st Conference of the Parties, held
in December 2015 in Paris, made a groundbreaking achievement
in adopting the goal to limit global warming to "well
below" 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Under the Paris Agreement, for the first time climate action
was anchored in the context of international law. This requires
countries to make their own unique contribution to the prevention
of dangerous climate change. The next crucial step
to follow this agreement is the rapid implementation by the
signing parties of concrete measures to make their individual
contributions to the global goal. For the past 13 years, the
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) has been keeping
track of countries' efforts in combating climate change. The
varying initial positions, interests and strategies of the numerous
countries make it difficult to distinguish their strengths
and weaknesses and the CCPI has been an important tool in
contributing to a clearer understanding of national and international
climate policy.
To demonstrate existing measures more accurately and to
encourage steps toward effective climate policy, we evaluated
the design of the CCPI this year with several achievements:
For the first time, it is monitoring the development of all greenhouse
gas emissions of the 56 countries and the EU that are
assessed in the CCPI. In addition to that, the index now is
suited even better to measure how well countries are on track
to the global goals of the Paris Agreement. It does so by not
only comparing countries by their development and recent
trends in the three categories "GHG Emissions", "Renewable
Energy" and "Energy Use", but also the 2°C-compatibility of
their current status and future targets in each of these categories.
The index also continues to evaluate countries' ambition
and progress in the field of climate policy.
The following publication is issued by Germanwatch, the
NewClimate Institute and the Climate Action Network.
However, only with the help of around 300 energy and climate
experts from all over the world we are able to include a review
of each country's national and international policies. The
review charts the efforts that have been made to avoid dangerous
climate change, and also evaluates the various countries'
current efforts regarding the implementation of the Paris
Agreement. We greatly appreciate these experts for their time,
efforts and knowledge in contributing to this publication. The
experts are mainly representatives of NGOs who work within
their respective countries, fighting for the implementation of
the climate policy that we all so desperately need.