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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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 UNECE Programme on EPRs was inspired by a sister programme launched by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for its member States in 1991. . In 1993 at the second "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland, UNECE was asked to run an EPR Programme for its member States that were not covered by the OECD EPR Programme.
Human Development Index (United Nations): ranked 117 out of 187 countries (2013 est.) Suicide Rate: ranked 90 (2005 est.) 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 ...