India Lowest in Environmental Performance Index.

June 8, 2022

The EPI has been prepared by researchers of the Yale Centre for Environmental Law & Policy and the Centre for International Earth Science Information Network Earth Institute, Columbia University.
The ranking is based on an assessment of 40 performance indicators, including climate change, biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, and environmental public health and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
India, for the first time, comes in at the very bottom of the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranking of 180 countries.
The US, the largest historical polluter, is ranked 43rd, while the current biggest emitter China has been ranked at the 160th position.
Denmark, the UK, Finland, Malta and Sweden occupy the top five slots, while countries from south and southeast Asia are placed at the bottom five.
India’s lowest rank is attributed to its air pollution and rapidly rising GHG emissions.