A beta version of the 2008 Environmental Protection Index has been released by Yale University. The “Environmental Peformance 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”. Some surprises there. Namely in the Andes/Amazon region where Colombia ranks 9th on a global level, beating the likes of Canada, Iceland, France, United Kingdom. Merit also for Ecuador in 22nd, Brazil in 34th, and Venezuela in 45th. The worst offenders in our region were Peru in 59th and Bolivia 110th. Interestingly, both the top of the table and the tail end reflect very closely the various development indices, with Scandinavian countries at the top and the last 8 consisting of western and central African nations.
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