India, Nov. 12 -- India ranked 28th, down five spots from last year, in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) released at the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Turkey, on Wednesday.

The independent monitoring mechanism, which has tracked the climate mitigation performance of 64 countries and the EU since 2005, found that no country performed well enough across all index categories to achieve an overall "very high" rating. The countries in the index account for over 90% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The first three positions in the 2026 index are blank. Denmark, with a score of 84.05, ranked the highest at number four, followed by Lithuania (74.03) at five and Luxembourg (72.03) at six. T...