Guest essay by Eric Worrall
In a league table prepared by the the German advocacy group Germanwatch, China scored 37/64, well ahead of the USA (55/64) and Australia (58/64).
Australia scores zero on climate policy in latest Climate Change Performance Index
Australia’s latest climate policies are failing to “take advantage of its potential” and rank last among nations in the latest Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI).
Key points:
- The CCPI is released every year and ranks countries in four categories
- Overall, Australia was ranked as one of the worst-performing countries
- Australia received a rating of “very low” in all four categories, the worst ranking
The annual rankings — published by German-based advocacy group Germanwatch — rank the performance of 63 nations and the European Union on greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use and climate policy.
The performance index is measured by consulting experts in each country, according to the organisation, and evaluates each country’s progress working towards goals in the Paris Agreement.
Australia ranked 55th, overall, but was dead last in climate policy, the only country to receive no score in that category.
In its assessment, Australia received a “very low” rating across the board and was “trailing many developed economies”.
“The government does not have any policies on phasing out coal or gas, but CCUS [carbon capture, utilisation and storage] and hydrogen are being promoted as low-emissions technologies,” the report said.
“Even though the renewables electricity is growing, the experts believe that Australia has failed to take advantage of its potential, and other countries have outpaced it.”
The league table is available here.
China achieved a high ranking despite massive coal use, a rapidly expanding coal fleet, and efforts to accelerate the rate of coal use, such a recent order to coal mines to dig more coal as fast as possible, regardless of cost.
Perhaps greens are trying to signal we should all use more coal.
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Wat? GMTA Terry.
Good thing there wasn’t a “reforestation/deforestation” metric. The US would do much better and Brazil would plummet to the bottom.
Don’t even know, or care, what a league table is.
Clearly the Leagues ideology is closest to Communist China than to western countries, so they ignore Chinas actual climate and environmental record.
Up is down again, got that.
I assume that the ranking inversely determines the potential for infusing cash into the process.
Well done Australia. But of course this ranking is all political.
A lot of comments here seem to originate with the US Epoch Times anti-China mouthpiece.
Here is the Epoch Times Falun Gong gathering in Nov 28 2015 Taipei, Taiwan :
“The Law Wheel Turns Unceasingly” formed by 6,300 Falun Gong practitioners on November 28.¨
The Law of the Wheel whispers the ¨Fourth Turning¨ mysticism ricocheting all over the web.
Deja Vu, anyone?
Germanwatch would be yet another organization deserving of the rewards of failed evolution. The gene pool for political environmentalists is barely deep enough to dampen your socks.
Because China is already completely Communist?
Only members of the CCP, please do not blame the people generally, they have no choice or real freedom.
Mode model idiocy.
Instead of measuring the end product where success is actually determined, these fools built their metrics around assumed process changes.
“Assumed process changes” are mostly talking points because most of the process changes they purport to measure actually fail at their assumed purpose, i.e., reduce CO₂.
Considered from a more enlightened point of view, e.g., damage to humans, damaged land area, damage to birds and bats, inability to consistently deliver energy to the public; Germany achieves all of these negatives without any real benefit.