(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) In Depth: Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2019

Topic: Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2019

Topic Description:

India has added another feather to its cap by joining the top 10 countries in this year's Climate Change Performance Index or CCPI for the first time.

As Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar put it, India is walking the talk by cutting down emission intensity by 21 per cent of its GDP

Moreover it is on track to achieve the goal of 35 per cent emission reduction as promised in the Paris summit in 2015

More commendable is the fact that while India has stayed true to its commitments on reducing its carbon footprint, advanced nations like the United States have been included in the worst-performing countries for the first time.

Even rich nations like Australia and Saudi Arabia which are running their economies on the basis of coal industries are also among the countries with high carbon emissions.

The CCPI report was released at the 'COP 25' climate change conference in the Spanish capital Madrid.