Switzerland has fallen seven places to 22nd in the annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), which noted that Swiss voters last year rejected the CO2 law for regulating emissions.
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“Switzerland is no longer among the CCPI high performers and now ranks medium overall,” said the indexExternal link, published on Monday at the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The Alpine nation received a medium rating for all four main CCPI categories: greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use, and climate policy.
“Switzerland needs to improve its policies and that while it is part of the Paris Agreement, implementation is still missing,” the index concluded.
In this year’s report Switzerland ranks behind Lithuania, Egypt and the EU average. Denmark came top.
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The fact that Switzerland had fallen out of the top 20 is the result of its blocked climate policy, said Greenpeace climate expert Georg Klingler, one of 450 international experts who contributed to the report.
If all countries acted like Switzerland, this would mean global warming of 3°C – twice the target of 1.5°C set by the Paris Climate Agreement, he said.
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Last week, Switzerland also came under international criticism for this. “Switzerland is paying poorer nations to cut emissions on its behalf”, was the headline in the New York TimesExternal link.
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