Armenia 69th on Environmental Performance Index
27-01-2006
AKIpress
For the first time Environmental Performance Index of the world was published.
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The rating will be officially made public on January 26, at the World economic forum in Davos. Composers of rating - Yale (Center for Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University) and Colombian (Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University) universities.
Each country was estimated according to 16 criteria incorporated in six groups - "Ecological health", "Air Quality", "Condition of water resources", "Bio diversity", "Efficiency of natural resources" and " Steady power development". The estimation was conducted on 100-point scale, 100 - the maximum result, 0 - the lowest.
The following countries achieved the greatest success in environmental sphere, New Zealand (88), Sweden (87,8), Finland (87), Czech Republic (86), Great Britain (85,6), Austria (85,2), Denmark (84,2), Canada (84), Malaysia and Ireland (83,3). The USA took 28 place (78,5).
Russia was recognized as the best of the former USSR states (32 place, 77,5). Ukraine - 51 place (71,2), Armenia -69 (63,8), Kazakhstan - 70 (63,5), Moldova - 75 (62,9), Georgia - 77 (61,4), Kyrgyzstan - 80 (60,5), Azerbaijan - 95 (55,7), Turkmenistan - 104, Uzbekistan - 105 (52,3), Tajikistan - 117 (48,2). Baltic states and Belarus were not considered by the rating composers due to lack of data.
Niger took the last, 133 place with the result 25,7, Chad (30,5) and Mauritania (32). For comparison: Japan - on 14-th place (81,9), Germany - on 22-nd (79,4), Poland - on 38-th (76,2), Israel - on 45-th (73,7), Turkey - on 49-th (72,8), Saudi Arabia - on 59-th (68,3), China - on 94-th (56,2).
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AKIpress
For the first time Environmental Performance Index of the world was published.
[...]
The rating will be officially made public on January 26, at the World economic forum in Davos. Composers of rating - Yale (Center for Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University) and Colombian (Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University) universities.
Each country was estimated according to 16 criteria incorporated in six groups - "Ecological health", "Air Quality", "Condition of water resources", "Bio diversity", "Efficiency of natural resources" and " Steady power development". The estimation was conducted on 100-point scale, 100 - the maximum result, 0 - the lowest.
The following countries achieved the greatest success in environmental sphere, New Zealand (88), Sweden (87,8), Finland (87), Czech Republic (86), Great Britain (85,6), Austria (85,2), Denmark (84,2), Canada (84), Malaysia and Ireland (83,3). The USA took 28 place (78,5).
Russia was recognized as the best of the former USSR states (32 place, 77,5). Ukraine - 51 place (71,2), Armenia -69 (63,8), Kazakhstan - 70 (63,5), Moldova - 75 (62,9), Georgia - 77 (61,4), Kyrgyzstan - 80 (60,5), Azerbaijan - 95 (55,7), Turkmenistan - 104, Uzbekistan - 105 (52,3), Tajikistan - 117 (48,2). Baltic states and Belarus were not considered by the rating composers due to lack of data.
Niger took the last, 133 place with the result 25,7, Chad (30,5) and Mauritania (32). For comparison: Japan - on 14-th place (81,9), Germany - on 22-nd (79,4), Poland - on 38-th (76,2), Israel - on 45-th (73,7), Turkey - on 49-th (72,8), Saudi Arabia - on 59-th (68,3), China - on 94-th (56,2).
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Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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