SGI 2020 | Sustainable Policies | Environmental Policies | Global Environmental Protection

To what extent are the Kyoto emission reduction targets met?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Average GHG emissions reduction (total GHG emissions excluding LULUCF) during the last three years minus Kyoto target reduction (range 0-100, percent of baseline year emissions) For countries with no Kyoto target specified, the value 100 is assigned.
Year:	2018
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	Hertie School of Governance, The Governance Report / Bertelsmann Foundation
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CHL, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Annotation:	UNFCCC: Dataset: Time Series - Annex I, GHG total without LULUCF URL: https://di.unfccc.int/time_s… extracted June 30th, 2020 For CHL, ISR, KOR, MEX: OECD: Dataset: Greenhouse gas emissions URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 12th, 2020

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	-71.0775
Maximum:	77.5625
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Additional annotations and exceptions

This indicator was first calculated by Hertie School of Governance in 2013, and updated by Bertelsmann Stiftung for SGI 2015 to 2020.

Top group

Score

Kyoto Participation and Achievements

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Romania

9.0

-54.22

Upper middle group

Lithuania

8.7

-49.44

Latvia

8.6

-48.76

Estonia

8.2

-41.90

Bulgaria

8.2

-40.94

Hungary

7.9

-36.93

Greece

7.8

-34.77

Slovakia

7.7

-33.45

Sweden

7.5

-30.12

7.4

-27.86

Czechia

7.3

-26.65

Poland

7.1

-23.23

Finland

6.9

-20.39

Croatia

6.8

-18.56

France

6.7

-16.06

Belgium

6.4

-11.76

Portugal

6.4

-11.11

Malta

6.3

-10.48

Italy

6.3

-9.86

Denmark

6.2

-8.03

Germany

6.2

-7.99

Netherlands

6.1

-7.08

Slovenia

6.1

-6.11

Lower middle group

Switzerland

5.9

-3.41

Ireland

5.9

-2.77

Spain

5.7

0.35

Norway

5.6

1.27

Japan

5.3

6.53

Luxembourg

5.2

8.67

Austria

4.8

15.11

Iceland

4.5

19.01

Australia

4.3

22.47

New Zealand

4.3

23.77

Canada

4.2

24.77

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Bottom group

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Cyprus

1.8

63.70

Chile

1.0

100.00

Israel

1.0

100.00

Mexico

1.0

100.00

South Korea

1.0

100.00

Turkey

1.0

100.00

USA

1.0

100.00