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Germany fell to 25th place in the Climate Change Performance Index for the third year running, its worst showing since 2019, and received a medium overall rating. Deutsche Welle reported that Brazil, Colombia and Romania now outperform it, placing Germany among the major economies losing ground on climate performance. Lead author Jan Burck attributed Germany's worst ever score in national climate policy to measures by economy minister Katherina Reiche aimed at increasing natural gas use, which he said risk slowing the energy transition. Denmark leads across all four assessed categories, and 15 states, including Lithuania, Chile and Morocco, received high ratings. Hungary jumped 21 places after Viktor Orban's government lost power, while the top three positions stayed empty. Renewables met 75% of global electricity demand growth last year, according to the energy think tank Ember, and the index projects a slight fall in emissions. The United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Canada rank at the bottom with very low ratings, while China ranks 56th, and Australia and Turkey, the COP31 hosts, received low ratings.