PTI

New Delhi, November 22

India is ranked among the many prime 5 nations, and the perfect among the many G-20 nations, underneath the worldwide Climate Change Performance Index, an official assertion mentioned.

The index is printed by German Watch, New Climate Institute and Climate Action Network International based mostly in Germany.

The CCPI goals to boost transparency in worldwide local weather politics and permits comparability of local weather safety efforts and progress made by particular person nations.

“India has been ranked amongst top 5 countries in the world, and the best among the G20 countries, based on its Climate Change performance,” an influence ministry assertion mentioned.

India jumped two spots, and is now ranked eighth as per the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI, 2023), it said.

The newest report of CCPI, launched at COP27 in November 2022, exhibits Denmark, Sweden, Chile and Morocco as the one 4 small nations that have been ranked above India at fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively.

The first, second and third ranks weren’t awarded to any nation. In impact, due to this fact, India’s rank is the perfect amongst all giant economies, it mentioned.

Published yearly since 2005, the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an unbiased monitoring instrument for monitoring the local weather safety efficiency of 59 nations and the EU.

Every 12 months, the CCPI units off necessary public and political debates throughout the nations assessed.

The local weather safety efficiency of those 59 nations, which collectively account for 92 per cent of worldwide greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions, is assessed in 4 classes—GHG Emissions (40 per cent of total rating), Renewable Energy (20 per cent), Energy Use (20 per cent) and Climate Policy (20 per cent).

India earned a excessive score within the GHG Emissions and Energy Use classes, whereas a medium score for Climate Policy and Renewable Energy, the assertion mentioned.

The aggressive insurance policies of India in direction of fast deployment of renewables and strong framework for power effectivity packages have proven appreciable influence. As per the CCPI report, India is on monitor to satisfy its 2030 emissions targets (suitable with a well-below-2°C state of affairs), it added.

The rating given by CCPI locations India as the one G-20 nation within the prime 10 rank. India will now be assuming G-20 Presidency and it is going to be an opportune time to indicate the world its local weather mitigation insurance policies equivalent to deployment of renewable sources of power and different power transition programmes, it mentioned.

Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy R Okay Singh mentioned India’s CCPI rating is testimony to the management proven by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in direction of addressing the worldwide local weather change regardless of pandemic and difficult financial occasions.

The top-5 rank globally displays that India is implementing power transition programmes equivalent to renewable capability set up at a lot quicker fee than wherever on the earth.