The Biggest Problem Seems To Be The White Settler ColoniesCarbon Tracker groups countries by different categories with respect to their plans to achieve their INDCs. "Role Model, Sufficient, Medium, Inadequate".
Role Model: No One!
Sufficient: Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Morocco, Bhutan, The Gambia
Medium: Brazil, China, European Union, India, Switzerland, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Peru
Inadequate: Argentina,
Canada, Chile, Japan, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey, UAE,
Australia,
New Zealand, Singapore, Ukraine, South Africa
In a Category All By Itself: Carbon Tracker says that they do not have a category for countries that are pulling out of the Paris accord, so that places the
USA in a category all by itself.
So the rule seems to be that if the country's official language is English, and its not the UK, it falls into the inadequate category. These countries all set pathetically low targets to begin with, especially given their world-leading levels of carbon emissions per capita.
Everything is relative though, with the EU committing to only a 1.2% annual reduction in carbon emissions between now and 2030:
"The 40% emissions reduction target is significantly behind what is achievable and necessary by the EU. Between 1990 and 2015 the EU’s emissions decreased by 24%, or approximately 1.1% per year. As a result, from now until 2030, emissions only need to decrease by about 1.2% annually to achieve the 2030 emissions reduction goal ... A significant acceleration of climate action is therefore essential to meet the EU’s long-term 2050 emissions reduction goal of 80–95% below 1990 by 2050. The long term goal also needs to be revised to reflect the Paris Agreement temperature goal. Slowing down now will require much faster - and therefore more costly"
Kicking the can down the road to future generations.The Carbon Tracker site does make for some sobering reading.
http://climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu.html