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Italy, a country still highly polluting


United States, Saudi Arabia and Australia are among countries that pollute more 'in the world and undertake not to protect the environment, but there' s also in Italy the nations that emit the largest amount 'of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and at the same time, have insufficient and inadequate climate policies''.'' And 'what emerges from the 2008 climate change performance index (CCPI), a measure used by the German NGO Germanwatch 2005 to assess the efforts of major nations in control of CO2 emissions. Presented today in Bali under the UN conference on climate change, il rapporto vede al primo posto la Svezia con un voto di 65,6 punti nella graduatoria di 56 paesi presi in esame. La seconda posizione e' andata alla Germania che, pur essendo - come l'Italia - un Paese con elevate emissioni di Co2, si impegna molto per la protezione climatica. Risultato: l'Italia e la Germania sono entrambi tra i dieci paesi che inquinano di piu' (rispettivamente con quote dell'1,67% e del 3% delle emissioni globali di gas serra), ma l'Italia e' al 41/mo posto della classifica complessiva (con 47 punti) rispetto al secondo posto della Germania (con 64,5 punti). Al terzo posto della graduatoria dei 56 paesi c'e' l'Islanda con 62,6 punti. A livello Ue, sono andati peggio dell'Italia solo la Grecia (46,8 punti), Ireland (46.4), Cyprus (46) and Luxembourg, and that 'the country with the most votes' low (39.2 points) among twenty-seven. Globally, the last in the standings and 'Saudi Arabia with 30 points, preceded by the U.S. (33.4), Australia (35.5) and Canada (37.6). But even the countries most 'virtuous fully meet Germanwatch, who in his report noted:''If protection against climate change was an Olympic sport, no country deserves to be on the podium of the winners.'' In the case of Sweden, said Jan Burck of Germanwatch,''the country has relatively low levels of emissions, but its performance with regard to climate policy and 'only average levels.'' For this, he said,''does not mean that the 'winners' policies have''exceptional climate protection.