Sunday, February 3, 2008

2008 Top 30 Environmental Countries

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a method of quantifying and numerically scaling the environmental performance of a set of companies or countries.

It is being developed from the Environmental Sustainability Index by Yale University. In the 2008 scorecard, this is how it looks:

1. Switzerland 95.5
2. Norway 93.1
3. Sweden 93.1
4. Finland 91.4
5. Costa Rica 90.5
6. Austria 89.4
7. New Zealand 88.9
8. Latvia 88.8
9. Colombia 88.3
10. France 87.8
11. Iceland 87.6
12. Canada 86.6
13. Germany 86.3
14. United Kingdom 86.3
15. Slovenia 86.3
16. Lithuania 86.2
17. Slovakia 86.0
18. Portugal 85.8
19. Estonia 85.2
20. Croatia 84.6
21. Japan 84.5
22. Ecuador 84.4
23. Hungary 84.2
24. Italy 84.2
25. Albania 84.0
26. Denmark 84.0
27. Malaysia 84.0
28. Russia 83.9
29. Chile 83.4
30. Spain 83.1

To compare with 2006, visit Wikipedia and scroll to 2006 data.

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