Environmental Performance Index
The Environmental Performance index is a sort of foundation for the growing knowledge of the issue of Environmental pollution and the use of information collected throughout the year as a guide to help build policy towards a better and cleaner future. As stated in their website, The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) was created between Yale Center for Law and Policy (YCELP) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University (CIESIN). The EPI ranks countries on a global spectrum on how they are sustaining their environment on a general stand point. This ranking is based off of a variety of issues a country faces and the the precautions they are taking to create a cleaner environment for the country's people. The pie chart shown below indicates the several issues the EPI considers and ranks the level of sustainability with these certain issues in a given country.
The Environmental Performance index is a sort of foundation for the growing knowledge of the issue of Environmental pollution and the use of information collected throughout the year as a guide to help build policy towards a better and cleaner future. As stated in their website, The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) was created between Yale Center for Law and Policy (YCELP) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University (CIESIN). The EPI ranks countries on a global spectrum on how they are sustaining their environment on a general stand point. This ranking is based off of a variety of issues a country faces and the the precautions they are taking to create a cleaner environment for the country's people. The pie chart shown below indicates the several issues the EPI considers and ranks the level of sustainability with these certain issues in a given country.
What About POPs?
The Environmental Performance Index mainly groups persistent organic pollutants with the sub-genre of pesticide regulation due to the high number of pesticides within the POPs category (see the left hand side of the pie chart shown below). According to the Environmental Performance Index, Countries are scored out of 25 total points. Their score is based on whether they have banned, restricted, or allowed the uses of any POPs within their country. The EPI also gives points to countries who have signed or ratified the Stockholm Convention. This website provides further detail on the Stockholm Convention under the tab "Acts Against POPS".
The Environmental Performance Index and POPS on a Global Scale
The Environmental Performance Index provides a very interesting tool that shows how countries are dealing with persistent organic pollutants globally. Within the EPI's website, a global map shows countries that have banned, restricted or allowed persistent organic pollutants in the country.
Top 20 Environmental Performance Rating of 2014
Here are the top twenty countries listed directly from the Environmental Performance Index website. The top twenty countries are:
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![]() This is a spectrum of all the data categories the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) collects to create their yearly ranks. the left side of this pie chart show categories that impact the ecosystem and the right side shows categories of environmental health. This pie chart is provided to you by the Environmental Performance Index
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