Environmental Performance Index (EPI) 2022 – Objections raised and the way forward
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Context: The newly released Environmental Performance Index (EPI) 2022, measured by Yale and Columbia universities, ranks India at the bottom position among 180 countries.
What is the Environmental Performance Index?
- The EPI is an international ranking system of countries based on their environmental health.
- It is a biennial index, first started in 2002 as the Environment Sustainability Index by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia University Center for International Earth Information Network.
Environmental Performance Index 2022
- EPI 2022 uses 40 performance indicators to assess and rank 180 countries.
- The report uses the most recent data, and the indicators “measure how close countries are to meeting internationally established s
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