As stated by the US-based institutions, India has been placed at the bottom on a list of 180 countries judged for their environmental performances. Among them, Denmark is the top country in this year’s Environmental Performance Index. The news was promulgated by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, followed by the UK and Finland, which earned high scores for slashing greenhouse gas emissions.
The EPI ranks 180 countries on climate change performance, environmental health, and ecosystem vitality, using 40 performance indicators across 11 issue categories. The indicators provide a gauge at a national scale of how close the countries are to be initiated environmental policy targets.
According to EPI, India has scored 18.9, while Myanmar got 19.4, Vietnam attained 20.1, Bangladesh has 23.1 and Pakistan has scored 24.6. The report reads India falls to the bottom of the rankings for the first time with increasingly dangerous air quality and fastly rising greenhouse gas emissions. With an overall EPI score of 28.4, China is placed 161st.
China and India are known as the first and second-largest emitters of greenhouse gases in 2050, in spite of swearing to avoid emission growth rates. Whereas, the United States is placed 20th out of 22 wealthy democracies in the Global West and 43rd overall. The list of Environmental Performance Index shows Russia in 112th rank.
