Climate Change Performance Index 2026: Background and Methodology
Author
Jan Burck, Thea Uhlich, Christoph Bals, Niklas Höhne, Jamie Wong, Maria Jose de Villafranca, Lotta Hambrecht
Publication Date
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Published annually since 2005, the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an independent monitoring tool for tracking the climate mitigation performance of 63 countries and the EU. It aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and enables comparison of climate protection efforts and progress made by individual countries.