Post date: Mar 31, 2014 12:39:26 PM
In partnership with the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, CIESIN released the 2014 Environmental Performance Index at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The EPI ranks country performance on high-priority environmental issues in two broad policy areas, protection of human health from environmental harm and protection of ecosystems. Innovations in this year’s release include: a new wastewater treatment indicator, which is a major driver of ecosystem water quality; a new approach to climate change indicators, which evaluates emissions relative to a country’s economic development; and two new satellite-derived indicators for air quality and forests, which more accurately depict environmental policy performance than did previous models and national reports. The report and data are available at: http://epi.yale.edu.