NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Sweden, Britain and Denmark are doing the most to protect against climate change, but their efforts are not nearly enough, according to a report released Monday by environmental groups.
The United States -- the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases -- ranked at 53, with only China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia doing worse.
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The index ranks 56 countries that were part of a 1992 climate treaty or that contribute at least 1 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The countries make up 90 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.
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About one-quarter of the energy consumed in Sweden in 2003 came from renewable sources -- more than four times as much as the European Union average of 6 percent. In Stockholm, one-quarter of city buses run on ethanol or biogas.
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Christoph Bals, political director of Germanwatch, said policy had an enormous effect on the rankings. The U.S. could move up 30 spots if its policies were akin to Britain's, he said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11/13/climate.ranking.ap/index.htmlThe article includes the Bu**sh**'s maladministration's usual "We're doin' a heckuva job!" rejoinder. Apparently a number of words in the English language have quite different meanings when used by the WH, thus rendering our progress exemplary.