India Placed at 10th Ranks in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022

India has been placed at 10th spot in the global Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022 released by Germanwatch on the side-lines of the COP26. In 2020 also India was at 10th position.
India has retained its position as the top 10 best performing countries with higher climate performance for the third year in a row .
Meanwhile, the top three places in the overall ranking is once again empty as none of the country performed well enough to achieve an overall very high rating in CCPI.
Moving ahead, Denmark occupied the fourth place as the highest ranked country in CCPI 2022, followed by Sweden (5th), and Norway (6th) respectively.
Other countries in top 10 are United Kingdom (7th), Morocco (8th) and Chile (9th).

About CCPI

The CCPI is developed jointly by not-for-profit organisations Germanwatch (Bonn, Germany), NewClimate Institute (Germany) and the Climate Action Network (CAN International) since 2005.
The 2022 index analyzed and compared climate protection across 61 countries (plus EU as a whole). These countries account for 90 percent of global emissions
The index enables comparison of mitigation efforts and progress made by individual countries and enhance transparency in international climate politics.
The countries are ranked by accessing their performance in four categories – GHG emissions (40%), renewable energy (20%), energy use (20%) and climate policy (20%).