A few days after the end of the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26), in Glasgow, the Climate Change Performance Index 2022 (in English, Climate Change Performance Index 2022 or CCPI), a report Annual produced since 2005 by the German non-governmental organizations Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute & Climate Action Network.
The CICC measures the climate protection performance of 60 countries.
The rankings are based on the overall score for each country. This is calculated from individual scores in four categories: 1. Greenhouse gas emissions; 2. Use of renewable energies; 3. Total energy consumption, and; 4. Climate policy.
In the index, the countries were classified as: 1 Very high performance: 2. High performance; 3. Medium performance; 4. Low performance, and; 5. Very low performance-
This year, none achieved the score to be rated very high performer.
These 15 countries were ranked as high performers (in descending order): Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Morocco, Chile, India, Lithuania, Malta, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Portugal, France, and Luxembourg.
These 15 as medium performers (in descending order): Netherlands, Ukraine, Egypt, European Union, Philippines, Greece, Colombia, Latvia, Indonesia, Croatia, Mexico, Italy, Thailand, Estonia, and Brazil.
These 15 low performers (in descending order): Spain, New Zealand, Austria, China, Romania, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Cyprus, Turkey, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Japan, Ireland, Argentina, Belarus, and Belgium.
Finally, these 15 very low performers (in descending order): Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Algeria, United States, Russia, Malaysia, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Kazakhstan.
Within the general index, our country ranks 29th.
It is noteworthy that among the low and very low performers are industrialized countries whose rulers are asking the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming, something they have not done very successfully.
In the greenhouse gas emission sub-index, Mexico appears in third place among high-performing countries, only below the United Kingdom and Sweden.
Unfortunately, in the sub-index for the use of renewable energy, our country is in the third to last place, only above Russia and Iran.
In the energy consumption sub-index, Mexico is also rated as high performer, ranking fourth behind Ukraine, Colombia and Malta.
And, in the climate policy subindex, Mexico is among the very underperforming countries, ahead of Poland, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Hungary, Belarus, Bulgaria, Brazil, Algeria and Australia.
Based on the CICC 2022, it is concluded that Mexico has a long way to go to develop an infrastructure to generate renewable energy and that the country lacks a climate policy that guarantees that its economic development minimally affects the environment.
During the current administration it is difficult for things to change. Maybe in 2025. Three years in which many opportunities will be lost.
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