According to the CCPI 2025 report, India ranks 10th, a drop from 7th position in 2023.

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According to the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2025, India ranked at 10th position with an overall score of 67.99 on a list of over 60 countries assessed for efforts to fight climate change, dropping from 7th position in 2023. This latest ranking of India is mainly attributed to its low per capita emissions and rapid deployment of renewable energy.


      - The CCPI 2025 was released at the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

      - The index left the first three places empty as no country performed well enough across all index categories to achieve an overall "very high" rating. The index is topped by Denmark (score of 78.37) ranked at 4th position, followed by the Netherlands (score of 69.60) and the United Kingdom (UK) with an overall score of 69.29 ranked at 5th and 6th positions, respectively.

      - The latest edition of the CCPI has tracked the climate performance of 63 countries and the European Union (EU), which together generated over 90% of global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

Main Points:-   (i) The UK and India are the only two Group-20 (G20) countries ranked among the high climate performers in the CCPI 2025.

      (ii) The UK and India are the only two Group-20 (G20) countries ranked among the high climate performers in the CCPI 2025. Among G20 countries, 14 received a low or very low rating. The CCPI 2025 showed that South Korea (63rd), Russia (64th), and Saudi Arabia (66th) remain in the G20's worst-performing countries with an overall very low rating.

(iii) The overall rank of the EU has dropped by 1 place, from 16th position in 2023 to 17th position in 2024 with an overall score of 63.76, maintaining an overall medium ranking.

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