Let’s go back a few years in time, precisely to 1992, the year the Earth Summit was held. At this meeting of leaders from around the world, the global action plan to promote sustainable development was agreed for the first time, but How does this affect the 5 most and least ecological countries in the world?
From the creation of the plan, the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development was also implemented. In this commission, different countries commit to guarantee the sustainability of their ecosystems through various actions. Once the diffusion and diversification of the environmental objectives that these actions would fulfill took place, the international community saw the need to develop systems to measure environmental performance.
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The birth of environmental measurement
In this way, after several attempts, in 2016 the Environmental Performance Indexbetter known as EPI. This system is an index that quantifies the results of each country’s environmental policies and rates them according to their performance.
It should be noted that each measurement is adapted to global environmental needs. The purposes of four years ago are not the same as those of now. For example, today countries are measured according to their results according to the objectives to be met by 2030.
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The categories that apply from the 2020 PPE They are: environmental health, air quality, sanitation and drinking water, ozone exposure, heavy metals, waste management, lead exposure, ecosystem vitality, biodiversity and habitat, protection of the terrestrial biome, etc.
Around 33 factors are considered to calculate and rank countries as the most and least ecological nations in the world. At a global level, this index is a good approach to celebrate the actions of some countries and urge the last places to transform their way of life and economy for the benefit of the planet. Know the rankings…
The 5 most and least ecological countries in the world (and their score)
The greenest countries in the world are:
The least ecological countries in the world:
Countries with a medium rating in environmental development:
For each nation the values work differently, but at the end of the day they all adapt to the global conditions of balanced sustainable development. It is clear that all its leaders are influenced, also by society, economic mechanisms and internal functioning.
However, all must function optimally according to their possibilities. No world power earns a better place because of its economic capacity. Everyone defines their position according to internal efforts.
Scores are determined based on each nation’s previous environmental performance. From this sense, it can be deduced that each country outlines its progress and objectives. Although, we cannot forget that all countries are somehow connected.
From an international perspective we know that great powers tend to intervene in smaller countries to exploit their resources. Either with an excuse of bringing development to poorer nations, the environment of the most limited nations can be affected by the consumption of the largest. So after all it is not balance is not so fair.
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