Creator: ESDIS
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability,Environmental Governance/Management,Climate Adaptation

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Description

The 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 132 countries on 22 performance indicators in the following 10 policy categories: environmental burden of disease, water (effects on human health), air pollution (effects on human health), air pollution (ecosystem effects), water resources (ecosystem effects), biodiversity and habitat, forestry, fisheries, agriculture and climate change. These categories track performance and progress on two broad policy objectives, environmental health and ecosystem vitality. Each indicator has an associated environmental public health or ecosystem sustainability target. The EPI's proximity-to-target methodology facilitates cross-country comparisons among economic and regional peer groups.

The Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index (Trend EPI) ranks countries on the change in their environmental performance over the last decade. As a complement to the EPI, the Trend EPI shows who is improving and who is declining over time.

The 2012 EPI and Pilot Trend EPI were formally released in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum on January 27, 2012. These are the result of collaboration between the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). The Interactive Website for the 2012 EPI is at http://epi.yale.edu/.

Product Summary

Platforms

Models

Instruments

Computer

Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180

Location

GLOBAL ,

CUBA ,

CYPRUS ,

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ,

HAITI ,

INDONESIA ,

JAMAICA ,

MALAYSIA ,

MALTA ,

PHILIPPINES ,

SINGAPORE ,

SRI LANKA ,

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ,

ALBANIA ,

ALGERIA ,

ANGOLA ,

ARGENTINA ,

ARMENIA ,

AUSTRALIA ,

AUSTRIA ,

AZERBAIJAN ,

BANGLADESH ,

BELARUS ,

BELGIUM ,

BENIN ,

BOLIVIA ,

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ,

BOTSWANA ,

BRAZIL ,

BULGARIA ,

CAMBODIA ,

CAMEROON ,

CANADA ,

CHILE ,

CHINA ,

COLOMBIA ,

CONGO ,

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ,

COSTA RICA ,

COTE D'IVOIRE ,

CROATIA ,

CZECHIA ,

DENMARK ,

ECUADOR ,

EGYPT ,

EL SALVADOR ,

ERITREA ,

ESTONIA ,

ETHIOPIA ,

FINLAND ,

FRANCE ,

GABON ,

GEORGIA ,

GERMANY ,

GHANA ,

GREECE ,

GUATEMALA ,

HONDURAS ,

HUNGARY ,

ICELAND ,

INDIA ,

IRAN ,

IRAQ ,

IRELAND ,

ISRAEL ,

ITALY ,

JAPAN ,

JORDAN ,

KAZAKHSTAN ,

KENYA ,

KUWAIT ,

KYRGYZSTAN ,

LATVIA ,

LEBANON ,

LIBYA ,

LITHUANIA ,

LUXEMBOURG ,

MEXICO ,

MOLDOVA ,

MONGOLIA ,

MOROCCO ,

MOZAMBIQUE ,

MYANMAR ,

NAMIBIA ,

NEPAL ,

NETHERLANDS ,

NEW ZEALAND ,

NICARAGUA ,

NIGERIA ,

NORTH MACEDONIA ,

NORWAY ,

OMAN ,

PAKISTAN ,

PANAMA ,

PARAGUAY ,

PERU ,

POLAND ,

PORTUGAL ,

QATAR ,

ROMANIA ,

RUSSIAN FEDERATION ,

SAUDI ARABIA ,

SENEGAL ,

SERBIA ,

SLOVAKIA ,

SLOVENIA ,

SOUTH AFRICA ,

SOUTH KOREA ,

SPAIN ,

SUDAN ,

SWEDEN ,

SWITZERLAND ,

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC ,

TAIWAN ,

TAJIKISTAN ,

TANZANIA ,

THAILAND ,

TOGO ,

TUNISIA ,

TURKEY ,

TURKMENISTAN ,

UKRAINE ,

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ,

UNITED KINGDOM ,

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,

URUGUAY ,

UZBEKISTAN ,

VENEZUELA ,

VIETNAM ,

YEMEN ,

ZAMBIA ,

ZIMBABWE

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Temporal Extent

2000-01-01 to 2010-12-31

Data Partner

Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)

Concept ID

C3540911855-ESDIS

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

Processing Level

Published

2012-08-28

Updated

2012-08-28

Science Keywords

Environmental Sustainability ,

Environmental Governance/Management ,

Climate Adaptation

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Yale Center For Environmental Law And Policy-YCELP-Yale University, Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University, World Economic Forum-WEF, & Joint Research Centre-JRC-European Commission. (2012). 2012 Environmental Performance Index and Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index (Version 2012.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H48913SG Date Accessed: 2026-05-01

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