CCPI: Czechia among countries with the worst results in implementing climate commitments

Czechia, Poland, Slovenia and Hungary are among the countries with the lowest-rated results in climate protection. This follows from the latest monitoring report of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI).

The CCPI report assesses countries' progress in implementing policies intended to help achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. CEEnergy News reported on the negative assessment of Central European countries' policies. The analysis, prepared by a consortium of international organisations and NGOs, covers 60 countries and the European Union, which together account for more than 90 % of global greenhouse gas emissions. It assesses their efforts across four climate policy categories: greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use and climate policy.

The report concludes that despite positive developments in climate policies, "no country performs well enough in all CCPI categories to achieve a very high rating overall." The consortium states that even if all countries committed to targets similar to those of the current global climate leaders, this would still not be enough to prevent climate change.

From the Central and Eastern European region, only Lithuania made the list of top-performing countries in the overall assessment. However, when broken down into the individual categories assessed, other Central and Eastern European countries also appear near the top of the rankings. In the category of greenhouse gas emissions reductions, for example, Romania, Slovakia and Estonia rank among medium-performing countries. In the renewable energy category, Latvia, Croatia, Estonia and Bulgaria are among the high-performing countries. Latvia and Lithuania reached the top of the ranking in the climate policy category.

The CCPI, published annually since 2005, aims to provide transparency in climate policy and enables climate protection efforts to be compared. The index is also increasingly used by financial institutions in assessing sovereign bonds.