AUSTRALIA HAS BEEN EMBARRASSED ABROAD by the Abbott Government yet again on the environment. This time on clean energy, by the annual survey from US-based green economy consultancy Dual Citizen. In its fourth Global Green Economy Index (GGEI) released yesterday, Dual Citizen places Australia at 37th out of 60 countries on clean energy performance. And last on global leadership. The top ten this year were Sweden, Norway, Costa Rica, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Finland and Iceland. The research assesses how 60 countries and 70 cities are performing in the global green economy and how expert practitioners rank this performance. Some consolation for Australia could be that, according to the report, it is not this year’s only laggard: ‘There are concerning results related to more developed countries as well – notably Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States – where perceptions of their green economic performance dramatically exceed their actual performance on the GGEI.’ Nevertheless, Australia has the ignominy of being easily bettered by Colombia (ranked 14), Peru (16), Kenya (17), Zambia (24), Ethiopia (26), Rwanda (27) and the Philippines (32). independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/abbott-takes-australia-to-last-place-on-global-climate-change-leadership,7019#.VEXpd4oKeCc.twitter
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:17:35 +0000