Table 2 How countries’ success and their factors influence climate change indicators.

From: Synergy of climate change with country success and city quality of life

Energy use rank

ND-GAIN (Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative) index

Public belief in the climate emergency

Country that says we should do everything necessary

EPI (Environmental Performance Index) climate change

EPI climate change rank

EPI greenhouse gas emissions per capita

Climate perceptions index

EF carbon footprint

CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production (tCO2/capita)

CO2 emissions embodied in imports (tCO2/capita)

Carbon pricing score at EUR60/tCO2

The Climate Change and Country Success (C3S) models*

 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

 −

+

+

+

+

+

+

Percentage increase in the climate change indicator when a nation’s success increases by 1%

 − 0.608

0.493

0.156

0.241

0.533

− 0.952

− 0.927

0.099

0.861

1.503

2.564

0.447

Percentage of the dependent climate change variable under analysis (R2) explained by the independent variables of a nation’s success

 44.9

95.4

51.4

78.6

77.3

77.9

74.0

56.9

75.3

54.1

76.2

64.1

  1. A positive (+) or negative (–) * sign specifies that a larger (smaller) climate change indicator value corresponds to a positive value for policy-makers.