Italy has taken a big step backwards
in its efforts to combat the climate crisis, according to a
report presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference
in Dubai on Friday.
According to the 2024 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI)
published by Germanwatch, CAN International and the NewClimate
Institute, Italy has fallen from 29th to 44th place in the
annual ranking of 63 countries and the European Union.
The drop is reportedly due above all to the slowdown in the
reduction of climate-altering emissions and to the existence of
a national climate policy that is deemed highly inadequate to
tackle the emergency.
Italy is respectively in 37th and 58th place in these specific
rankings.
The CCPI assesses each country's performance in four categories:
GHG Emissions (40% of the overall ranking), Renewable Energy
(20%), Energy Use (20%) and Climate Policy (20%).
It also explores the extent to which each country is taking
appropriate action in the areas of Emissions, Renewable energy
and Energy use in order to achieve the climate goals set in the
Paris Agreement adopted at COP21 in 2015.
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