Portugal is among the world's top 15 countries with the best climate performance, rising two positions in the Climate Change Performance Index, released this Monday.
The Climate Change Performance Index analyses and compares climate change mitigation efforts across 59 countries, in a list with 63 positions. As usual, the first three spots on the list have been left vacant because no country is fully aligned with the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming below 1.5°C.
The ranking, released today at the UN climate conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, places Denmark first (in fourth place), followed by Sweden and then Chile.
Portugal appears in the group of countries in green in 14th place, following countries like Morocco, India, Estonia, Norway and the United Kingdom, which fell four places from the previous index. Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Malta trail Portugal at the bottom of the green list.
The index, published annually since 2005, is the responsibility of the German non-governmental environmental organisation Germanwatch and the NewClimate Institute and evaluates four categories: greenhouse gas emissions (40% weight in the final classification), renewable energy, energy use and climate policy.
It is published jointly with the Climate Action Network International (CAN International). The countries that comprise the index are responsible for around 90% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
