Over 190 United Nations countries were ranked on their efforts to tackle climate change last week, and Australia came in dead last. The U.N.-backed Sustainable Development Solutions Network released the report, designed to assess progress on various international sustainable development goals. Nordic nations Finland, Sweden and Denmark topped the rankings, followed by Germany, Belgium, Austria, Norway, France, Slovenia and Estonia in the top ten. Australia finished last behind developing countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Liberia, Afghanistan and even the embattled African nation of Zimbabwe, which has been plagued by political unrest and drought. The results of the report prompted Greens Senator for Queensland Larissa Waters to post on Facebook: “We are a global embarrassment”.