Belém (Brazil): India’s performance in tackling climate change declined significantly over the past year, with the country sliding 13 spots in the Climate Change Performance Index 2026 released here at the COP30.

India is ranked 23 this year in the index that tracked 63 countries and the European Union’s climate mitigation performance on four parameters—greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use, and climate policy. In 2025, India was ranked 10.

“India has serious constraints in phasing out/phasing down coal, and these cannot be solved overnight,” D. Raghunandan, the founder-member of Delhi Science Forum think tank, told ThePrint. He noted a shortage of investments in solar and wind energy, weak electricity transmission capacity, lack of adequate storage, and poor grid stabi

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