What is CCPI?
CCPI is an international observation instrument of climate protection performance by countries. CCPI aims to increase transparency in global climate politics and enables the comparability of climate protection efforts. Four categories of ranking are – Renewable Energy, Climate Policy, Energy Use, and GHG Emissions.
Climate Change Performance Index
- It is an annual publication by Environment think tank German Watch, the New Climate Institute and the Climate Action Network since 2005.
- The index tracks countries’ efforts to combat climate change.
- It is an independent monitoring tool aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics.
- It evaluates and compares the climate protection performance of 57 countries and the EU, which are together responsible for more than 90% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
- 80% of the evaluation is based on objective indicators of emissions trend and emissions level.
- 20% of the index results are built upon national and international climate policy assessments by more than 200 experts from the respective countries.
- Country’s ranking is defined by 14 indicators within 4 categories – GHG Emissions, Renewable Energy, Energy Use and Climate Policy.
- The CCPI ranking is qualified in relative terms (better–worse) rather than in absolute terms.
- In CCPI 2020, no country performs well enough in all index categories to achieve an overall very high rating in the index, thus the first 3 ranks remain empty.
- Sweden leads the ranking on rank 4, followed by Denmark and Morocco.
- The bottom 3 countries are Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and United States.
- India, for the first time, ranks at 9 among the top 10 in the index.