Climate Change Performance Index 2025
Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute, Climate Action Network · Published 21 November 2024
This ranking is misleading. A fifth of the score is expert judgment without named coders, and the expert selection is unpublished, so the method cannot be audited.
What the report claims
The Climate Change Performance Index ranks countries on greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use, and climate policy. India ranks 10th of 63 countries plus the EU, with a score of 67.99, down from 7th in 2024 but still in the top 10, driven by low per-capita emissions and a fast-growing renewables base. The emissions and energy indicators cite official inventories and energy statistics, and India is observed on those series. The top three places are left empty by design, since no country is doing enough for the Paris goals, which compresses the ranking.
The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension
- Methodology transparency / replicability
- 7 / 20
- Source verifiability + measurement integrity
- 8 / 25
- Internal consistency of India’s place
- 8 / 20
- Construct validity / India coverage
- 4 / 10
- Independence and funding
- 4 / 20
- Accountability (corrections, versioning)
- 1 / 5
Funding and independence: The index is co-produced by Germanwatch, the NewClimate Institute, and Climate Action Network, all organisations with explicit climate advocacy missions, and the advocacy network co-owns the ranking and supplies the policy experts who score a fifth of it. Funding comes from German government and foundation project grants, including the Barthel Foundation, but project-level amounts are not disclosed, there is no independent academic oversight board, and no public corrections log or errata policy is published.
Sources: Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute, and Climate Action Network, Climate Change Performance Index 2025
Newer edition: Climate Change Performance Index 2026 · India 23rd of 63, Credibility Score 30 · Misleading
Updated 9 November 2026