Excerpt from the article by MICHAEL TAYLOR In a mere two years Australia has fallen from a ranking of 4th to 37th in supporting clean energy to combat climate change. Dr Anthony Horton reports. According to the 2014 Global Green Economy Index (GGEI) report, Australia’s leadership efforts with respect to climate change has seen it ranked last out of 60 countries. The index, which was first published in 2010, measures the green economic performance of each country based on four components- leadership and climate change, efficiency sectors, markets and investment and environment and natural capital. According to the GGEI, Australia’s ranking is largely due to factors including negative media coverage, “nonconstructive behaviour” in international forums and overall poor performance in climate change. In terms of actions that support clean energy and combat climate change, Australia was ranked 37th, which represents a dramatic fall from the 4th rank attained only two years ago. To put this rank of 37th into perspective, developing countries Kenya and Rwanda were ranked 17th and 27th respectively. As a result of Australia’s performance, it was placed in a bracket with Japan, the Netherlands and the United States as countries where their perceived green economic performance dramatically exceeded their actual performance measured by the GGEI. The report concluded that Australia’s poor result meant that much needed attention should be devoted to the areas identified above (eg. media coverage, poor climate change performance), and that as a nation, Australia should build on its strong performance with respect to markets and investment (eg. cleantech innovation and commercialisation). TO READ MORE = theaimn/australia-awarded-last-place/
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 02:25:36 +0000
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