{"id":34808,"date":"2022-11-18T03:41:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34808"},"modified":"2025-04-20T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:58:04","slug":"at-eighth-spot-india-ranks-high-on-list-for-climate-protection-ccpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/at-eighth-spot-india-ranks-high-on-list-for-climate-protection-ccpi\/","title":{"rendered":"At Eighth Spot, India Ranks High on List for Climate Protection: CCPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About CCPI<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlights of the CCPI 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>India specific highlights in the CCPI 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why In News:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Because of its low emissions and rising usage of renewable energy, India climbed two spots to\u00a0<strong>8th place out of 63 countries<\/strong>\u00a0in the recently released Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>scoring system<\/strong>\u00a0designed by the\u00a0<strong>Germanwatch\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; a non-profit, non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Bonn, Germany.<\/li>\n<li>It was first published in\u00a0<strong>2005\u00a0<\/strong>and an updated version is presented at the UN Climate Change Conference annually.<\/li>\n<li>The index aims to\u00a0<strong>improve transparency in international climate policy<\/strong>\u00a0by assessing and comparing the climate protection performance of 63 nations and the European Union (EU), which account for more than 90% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Highlights of the CCPI 2023:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2022\/11\/18\/12\/46\/39\/6377315745f9d205b8fee37d_OI.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rankings from Germanwatch, New Climate Institute and the Climate Action Network are based on\u00a0<strong>how well countries are doing in halving their emissions by 2030<\/strong>, which is critical to meeting the 1.5-degree Celsius target and avoiding disastrous climate change.<\/li>\n<li>The report leaves the<strong>\u00a0first three spots empty<\/strong>\u00a0because no country did well enough in all index categories to earn a very high overall grade.\u00a0<strong>Denmark<\/strong>\u00a0is ranked fourth, followed by Sweden and Chile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>China<\/strong>, the world&#8217;s leading polluter, dropped 13 spots to 51st in this year&#8217;s CCPI and received an overall very-low grade due to plans for new coal-fired power plants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The US<\/strong>\u00a0climbed three places to 52nd place. The weakest performers were Iran (63rd), Saudi Arabia (62nd), and Kazakhstan (61st).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>India specific highlights in the CCPI 2023:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overview:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India\u00a0<\/strong>earned a high rating in the GHG Emissions and Energy Use categories, while it got a medium rating in Climate Policy and Renewable Energy sections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India is on track\u00a0<\/strong>to meet its 2030 emissions targets, compatible with a well-below 2-degree-Celsius scenario.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steps taken by India:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Since the last CCPI, India has updated its\u00a0<strong>Nationally Determined Contribution<\/strong>\u00a0(NDC) &#8211; national plans to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius in accordance with the\u00a0<strong>Paris Agreement.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India also announced a\u00a0<strong>net-zero<\/strong>\u00a0(achieving a balance between the GHGs put into the atmosphere and those taken out) target for 2070.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Challenges for India:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>India is among the 9 countries\u00a0<strong>responsible for 90% of global coal production\u00a0<\/strong>and it also plans to increase its oil, gas production by more than 5% by 2030.\n<ul>\n<li>This is incompatible with the 1.5-degree Celsius target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The renewable energy pathway is not on track for the 2030 target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Way ahead for India:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A just and equitable energy transition is required,<\/strong>\u00a0as is the need for decentralised renewable energy and rooftop photovoltaic capacity.<\/li>\n<li>A carbon-pricing mechanism, increased capacity at the subnational level, and\u00a0<strong>concrete action plans to meet the targets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCPI is a scoring system designed to enhance transparency in international climate politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}