Environmental Performance Index
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Environmental Performance Index 2008 (Selected Economies)
RankingScore
Switzerland 1 95.5
Sweden 2 93.1
Norway 3 93.1
Finland 4 91.4
Costa Rica 5 90.5
New Zealand 7 88.9
Colombia 9 88.3
France 10 87.8
Iceland 11 87.6
Canada 12 86.6
Germany 13 86.3
United Kingdom14 86.3
Portugal 18 85.8
Japan 21 84.5
Ecuador 22 84.4
Denmark 25 84.0
Malaysia 26 84.0
Russia 28 83.9
Chile 29 83.4
Spain 30 83.1
Panama 32 83.1
Brazil 35 82.7
Uruguay 36 82.3
Argentina 38 81.8
United States 39 81.0
Cuba 41 80.7
Venezuela 45 80.0
Australia 46 79.8
Mexico 47 79.8
South Korea 51 79.4
Netherlands 55 78.7
Peru 60 78.1
South Africa 97 69.0
China 10565.1
Bolivia 11064.7
Niger 14939.1
Source: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University; Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 149 countries on 25 indicators tracked across six established policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Change. (http://epi.yale.edu/Home).
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