Published annually since 2005, the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an independent monitoring tool for the climate protection performance of 59 countries.

The 59 countries assessed by the Climate Change Performance Index in its 2023 report together account for 92% of global greenhouse gas emissions. These countries are assessed in four categories: GHG emissions, renewable energy, energy use and climate policy.

Of the 59 countries, 4 are African countries. Algeria, South Africa, Egypt and Morocco show very different results. Indeed, while Morocco continues to make good progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and implementing good climate policies, others are doing the opposite. This is the case of Algeria and South Africa, two countries that are still very dependent on their fossil resources.

Morocco is in the top 10 of the best performing countries in this year’s CCPI

As in the previous two years, the report shows that the Kingdom of Morocco scored highly in three main categories of the IPCC: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Energy Consumption and Climate Policy. This performance earned it a 7th place in the ranking, as the top 3 places were not awarded.

However, although the trend in renewable energy is very high in Morocco, the country scored very low in this category. The fault, according to the report, is the lack of decentralisation of renewable energy and the fact that citizens are not encouraged to produce their own renewable energy.

In this regard, it should be noted that the Moroccan House of Representatives unanimously approved in December 2022 during a legislative session, the draft law n° 82.21 on the self-production of electrical energy.

In general, the report notes that Morocco has been at the forefront of reducing its GHG emissions and has strengthened this effort after COP22. The CICC experts welcome the country’s progress in recent years, but criticise the current laws for their lack of enforceability and for the lack of industry support for them.

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According to data published by “Our World in Data”, a website that focuses on global problems, Morocco ranks 9th in terms of anti-Covid-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 inhabitants of the total population over seven days, with a rate of 0.36%.

Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign in Morocco, 1,707,091 vaccine injections have been administered as of February 15th. Morocco is ahead of Turkey which ranks 10th (0.21%), Malta in 8th position (0.41%), Bahrain in 7th position (0.48%), and then the United States in 6th place with a rate of 0.5%.

As a reminder, Morocco received different batches of the British vaccine AstraZeneca, made in India, as well as that of Chinese laboratory Sinopharm. The vaccination campaign launched by His Majesty King Mohammed VI on January 28th, 2021, is free for all citizens with the objective of immunizing 80% of the population (30 million people), reducing and then eliminating cases of contamination and death linked to the epidemic and to stem spread of the virus.

During this “gradual” national campaign, the first injections were reserved in priority for health professionals over 40, public authorities, soldiers, and teachers over 45, and also people aged 75 and over before extending it to the rest of the population.

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