21 Nov 2024 19:58:34
Posted: 21 Nov 2024
New Zealand has dropped seven places to 41st in the global Climate Change Performance Index, which ranks countries based on their emissions, deployment of renewable electricity, overall energy use and climate policy.
The announcement of the latest update to the index, which has been running since 2005 and is considered an authoritative evaluation of the climate performance of 63 nations, came at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday. The top three slots in the index were left blank, to reflect that no country is ticking all four boxes evaluated.
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