India in the "Climate Change Performance Index"

The latest "Climate Change Performance Index" is out.

India in the "Climate Change Performance Index"

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• The story: The Germanwatch, in collaboration with Climate Action Network (CAN) and New Climate Institute, published the “Climate Change Performance Index 2022”. The report came during the COP26 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 
• India’s perfomance: In the latest index, India maintained its rank at 10th position and continued to be among top-performing countries within G20.
• Overall scene: While the United States was ranked at 55th position among 66 countries with very low rating, it is now known that USA is improving since it re-entered global climate negotiation process after President Joe Biden came to power. China moved down four places as compared to 2020 ranking, and was ranked at 37th position. The European Union was ranked at the 22nd position, six places down as compared to 2020 ranking. It has been given ‘medium’ rating.Denmark emerged as the topper in the list with 76.92 per cent score, and was followed by Sweden and Norway.
• Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI): The CCPI is an independent monitoring tool, playing a leading role in providing information on implementation phase of Paris Agreement. It has provided analysis of climate protection performance of countries since 2005. The index evaluates 60 countries and European Union, which generate about 90 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. It analyses countries in four categories comprising of 14 indicators: Greenhouse gas emissions (40 per cent of total score), Renewable energy (20 per cent), Energy use (20 per cent) and Climate policy (20 per cent).
• EXAM QUESTIONS: (1) Explain why the rich world is generally hesitant in providing ample climate finance to the emerging world. (2) What are the various learnings from the COP-26, 2021? Explain.

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