India Ranks Lowest Among 180 Countries In Environmental Performance Index

Environmental performance index: The lowest scores went to India (18.9), Myanmar (19.4), Vietnam (20.1), Bangladesh (23.1) and Pakistan (24.6), said the report.

India has been placed at the bottom on a list of 180 countries judged for their environmental performances by US-based institutions.

Denmark topped the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) published recently 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 in recent years.

The EPI provides a data-driven summary of the state of sustainability around the world.

Using 40 performance indicators across 11 issue categories, the EPI ranks 180 countries on climate change performance, environmental health and ecosystem vitality. These indicators provide a gauge at a national scale of how close the countries are to established environmental policy targets.