Environmental Performance Index

The 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 149 countries on 25 indicators tracked across six established policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Change. The Index provides a powerful tool for improving policymaking and shifting environmental decision-making onto firmer analytic foundations. The Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS)/Water collaborated on the Water Pollution section of the EPI.

The EPI focuses on two overarching environmental objectives:

reducing environmental stresses to human health;
promoting ecosystem vitality and sound natural resource management.

These broad goals also reflect the policy priorities of environmental authorities around the world and the international community’s intent in adopting Goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to “ensure environmental sustainability.” The two overarching objectives are gauged using 25 performance indicators tracked in six well-established policy categories, which are then combined to create a final score.

Contact information	Yale University (US) (email: epi@yale.edu ; epi@linkedbyair.net)
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://epi.yale.edu/Home
Source of information	The Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS)
Keyword(s)	MDGs
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , WATER QUALITY
Relation	http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/map/MSSD/doc343246
Geographical coverage	149 countries
News date	11/02/2008
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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