CLIMATE CHANGE PERFORMANCE INDEX (2014)

Based on GermanWatch.org and Climate Action Network (CAN)

The EU has given up the leading role in the UNFCCC process as well as its position as a frontrunner in the implementation of ambitious climate protection on the national level. So far, the EU has not yet developed a concept to use the fight against the economic crisis as an opportunity to invest in the rail and grid infra­structure, in energy efficiency programmes (for example, in the housing sector) and renewable energies. Some countries have been blocking any meaningful process, most noticeably Poland.