
Places one to three again remain vacant because no country’s measures thus far have been sufficient to achieve an overall ‘very high’ rating – none are following a path necessary to keep global warming within the 1.5☌ limit. Leaders Denmark, Sweden, and Norway occupy ranks four through six in the new Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022. Scandinavian countries lead the way in climate protection, together with Morocco and the United Kingdom. Netherlands and Greece are the biggest climbers since last year, while Latvia, Croatia, Belarus and Algeria have fallen down the rankings.Australia, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kazakhstan are among the worst performers.Scandinavian countries, together with the United Kingdom and Morocco, lead the ‘race to zero’.Race Towards Climate Neutrality Is Underway: CCPI’s top countries lead the way The index aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and enable comparison of mitigation efforts and progress made by individual countries. Together these countries account for 90 percent of global emissions. Developed by Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute and CAN, the CCPI analyses and compares climate change mitigation efforts across 60 countries (plus EU as a whole) with the highest emissions.
