{"id":12588,"date":"2021-07-09T09:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T06:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12588"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:29","slug":"australia-ranks-last-for-climate-action-among-un-member-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/07\/09\/australia-ranks-last-for-climate-action-among-un-member-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia ranks last for climate action among UN member countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australia has been ranked last for climate action out of nearly 200 countries in a report assessing progress towards global sustainable development goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sustainable Development Report 2021,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/australia-ranked-dead-last-in-world-for-climate-action-in-latest-un-report\/\">first reported by Renew Economy<\/a>, scored Australia last out of 193 United Nations member countries for action taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dashboards.sdgindex.org\/downloads\">database<\/a>&nbsp;shows Australia received a score of just 10 out of 100 in an assessment of fossil fuel emissions, emissions associated with imports and exports, and policies for pricing carbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second last was Brunei, which was ranked behind Qatar and Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richie Merzian, a climate expert at the Australia Institute, said the result was unsurprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAustralia has received similar rankings from other comparable studies, including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ccpi.org\/\">Climate Change Performance Index<\/a>, which last year ranked Australia second last behind only Trump\u2019s America,\u201d he said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jul\/01\/australia-ranks-last-for-climate-action-among-un-member-countries?utm_source=Climate+Council+of+Australia&amp;utm_campaign=44a7aab862-2107_July_Newsletter_%5BND%5D&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_03ddbdd2e5-44a7aab862-157653514\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has been ranked last for climate action out of nearly 200 countries in a report assessing progress towards global sustainable development goals. The Sustainable Development Report 2021,&nbsp;first reported by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}