Canada sixth overall in ranking of G8 countries’ low-carbon performance
Posted May 20, 2010 11:49 am.
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Canada has placed sixth among G8 nations in a federally-appointed think tank’s new report on low-carbon performance.
The ranking comes in the new low-carbon performance index produced by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which is measured across five key categories and 15 indicators.
The categories are emissions and energy, innovation, investment, skills, and policy and institutions.
But while Canada placed sixth overall, the country ranked first in skills and third in innovation under the performance index.
France, Germany and Britain placed highest overall, followed by Japan and the United States; Canada finished ahead of Italy and Russia.
The round table’s index measures, among other things, a country’s level of clean-technology investment, low-carbon financial stimulus and national carbon-pricing measures.
