To coincide with COP26 in Glasgow, Germanwatch and the NewClimate Institute published their annual climate protection index - and once again it shows that despite some progress, no country is yet on track to meet the 1.5-degree target. That's bad news. But politics alone won't fix it anyway.
As in previous years, the first three places in the climate protection index of Germanwatch and the NewClimate Institute remain vacant. This is followed - unsurprisingly - by the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, which were always at the top in the past. "We are at the beginning of the decade in which it is primarily a matter of implementing the climate targets that have been set. Denmark, Sweden and Norway, like Great Britain and Morocco, are doing a lot better than the rest of the world," ...