ROME: 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. (ANSA).
