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The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a method of quantifying and numerically marking the environmental performance of a state's policies, highlightning the degradation of the planet's life-supporting systems on which humanity depends. A world economy that continues to rely heavily on fossil fuels translates into ongoing air and water ...
The index captures the HDI of a country adjusted for ecological and environmental factors like carbon dioxide emissions per person and material footprint. According to the PHDI, "The PHDI discounts the HDI for pressures on the planet to reflect a concern for intergenerational inequality, similar to the inequality-adjusted HDI adjustment which ...
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) Environmental Performance Index (EPI) Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) Happy Planet Index (HPI) List of countries by ecological footprint; Sustainable Society Index (SSI) The Global 100 (G100) List of countries by freshwater withdrawal
Some of the most prominent of these include the Human Development Index (HDI) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the Ecological footprint of Global Footprint Network and its partner organizations; the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) and the pilot Environmental Performance Index (EPI) reported under the World Economic ...
The Environmental Performance Reviews are evidence- and factual accuracy-based, relying on sound national and international data. The approach of the reviews has given priority to: i) identifying national objectives (i.e. aims, goals, and targets); ii) identifying international commitments of the reviewed country; and iii) using of statistics ...
Happy Planet Index 2012: ranked 24 out of 111; Where-to-be-born Index 2005: (Economist Intelligence Unit): ranked 63 out of 80; Education Index 2008: ranked 66; Global Gender Gap Report 2014: (World Economic Forum): ranked 8 out of 136; Legatum Prosperity Index 2014: ranked 67 out of 142 [13] Satisfaction with Life Index 2018: ranked 78 out of ...
In spite of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report which is increasingly identifying environmental pressures as the dominant risks to humanity, none of the indicators used to determine this report's competitiveness ranking reflect any of the countries' environmental dimensions such as energy, water, climate risks, resource or food security, etc.
The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006. Each country's HPI value is a function of its average subjective life satisfaction , life expectancy at birth, and ecological footprint per capita.