- Estonia, Luxembourg and UK are the top three in biennial Yale University index in tackling pollution and other issues
- US, China are falling further behind, the researchers say
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The biennial Yale University index again ranks Estonia as the best-performing of 177 assessed countries, after strong recent efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and protect its ecosystems. Luxembourg is second, and the UK is third, having moved up from fifth place in the 2024 index.
European countries dominate the top 20, with only Japan, in 16th, not situated in the continent. Australia is in 25th place, two places ahead of the US. Laos is the last-ranked nation, with the bottom three rounded out by India and Bangladesh.
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Despite this worsening situation, several countries, most notably the US under Donald Trump, have recently scaled back efforts to combat the climate crisis. The Yale index uses data up to 2024, capturing the last part of Joe Biden’s presidency rather than Trump’s, but still finds that even then the US’s emissions were falling far too slowly to reach net zero by 2050, as the science demands must be done to avoid disastrous climate breakdown.
China, now the world’s largest carbon emitter ahead of the US, has made huge progress in developing its clean energy sector, the Yale report finds, but still derives 56% of its electricity from coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, and performs relatively poorly on its marine conservation and biodiversity stewardship, the scorecard found.
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“Europe has really stepped out in front and is continuing to pursue climate change with not the full vigor it might have a few years back when the political circumstances were different, but they’re getting the payback for decades now of work on this issue at the cutting edge,” said Esty.
“The laggards in the US and China both are still lagging, seem to be falling further behind and are holding back the global community’s efforts to achieve the targets that have been agreed upon.”
China has climbed the table somewhat to 129th position, however, after previously being ranked near last due to the dangerous air pollution suffered by many of its major cities. It has since removed many of the coal-fired power plants near cities that caused such problems. The Yale index also marks India down for its tree cover loss, pesticide pollution risks and ocean conservation from the last index. “India’s performance is shockingly bad for a country that aspires to be a leader in global terms on the economy,” Esty said.
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What part of China being a developing country is it you don't understand?
The next distraction.
You're just frequently change the subject if you run out of arguments.
Is it 5 times now? Or 10 times? Where do you get these numbers?
It was an estimate which is CLEARLY indicated by the 5-10 way I wrote it, but it's very obvious that it is more than 4 in direct comparison, but closer to 10 in PPP.
But there are so many variables so anyone claiming to have an accurate number is clearly lying.
How much for instance does the electrification to EV cars count? You can't make exact numbers on this.
By the amount of projects we see in China, I'd say it's closer to 10, but you just go ahead and continue to pretend like you don't understand anything. And then claim you know better anyway. 😋
If it makes you happy we can call it 4-8 but below that is ridiculous.
You're again repeating claims andnumbers without reliable sources of evidence.
I posted several links in this thread clearly showing that China is far behind regarding climate actions by all comparative standards.
Your first link:
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/
Showing a world map with countries in different colors?? Calling China insufficient without any explanation or any numbers.
Just more complete bullshit from you.
Your other link:
https://www.climatewatchdata.org/countries/CHN?end_year=2023&start_year=1990
China is 1,4 billion people out of 8.3 = 17% of the global population, but China is also by far the worlds biggest exporter, meaning that other countries are importing CO2 emmisions from China.
Using the same source for USA shows that USA has almost twice the CO2 output per capita, and is one of the biggest CO2 IMPORTERS of the world.
China is a developing country investing heavily in renewable energy, where USA one of the richest countries in the world is investing less than both China and Europe.
You are a moron, you showed NOTHING but your own stupidity, and failure to understand the issue.
Goodbye.
All these links link to well-sourced analyses by reputable and highly reliable organizations. Just read it.
What makes this conversations useless is your unwillingness to accept the truth that China is far behind in climate actions by any comparative standards. Your offensive language doesn't change that.