Environmental Performance Index

Current Context : Recently, Environmental performance Index (EPI) 2024 was released.

• Released by the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy at the University of Yale in the United States.
• It offers a summary of sustainability around the world by ranking 180 countries based on climate change mitigation, ecosystem vitality and environmental health.
• The EPI uses 58 different performance indicators within 11 categories to score each country, track trends and identify successful policy interventions.

RELEVANT DATA :

• In 23 countries, more than 10% of the protected land was found to consist of buildings and cropland.
• In 35 countries there is more fishing within the marine protected areas than outside.
• No country, could claim full sustainability based on the 2024 EPI.

INDIA RANKED 176

• India is world’s third-largest GHG emitter, with total emissions growing 32 percent over past decade.

India surpassed China in 2022 as the world’s largest emitter of anthropogenic sulphur dioxide.