Environmental performance index 2022 

The Environment Performance Index (EPI) is an international ranking system that measures environmental health and sustainability of countries.

The EPI, a biennial index, was started in 2002 as Environmental Sustainability Index by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network.

 The 2022 EPI provides a quantitative basis for comparing, analyzing, and understanding environmental performance for 180 countries.Out of 180 countries that have been ranked, India is in the bottom five with a score of 18.9. 

The EPI ranks 180 countries on 40 performance indicators including climate change, environmental public health, biodiversity.The EPI team transforms the raw environmental data into indicators that place countries on a 0–100 scale from worst to best performance.

As per EPI estimates, only a handful of countries, including Denmark and the United Kingdom, are on track to meet net zero emission goals by 2050. Nations such as China, India, and Russia are headed towards the wrong direction with rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions.

TOP 10 COUNTRIES ARE

India ranked at the bottom with a total score of 18.9, while 

Denmark was the top scorer as the world’s most sustainable country

The United Kingdom and Finland place 2nd and 3rd, both earning high scores for slashing greenhouse gas emissions in recent years.

INDIA'S SCORE 

CATEGORIES	RANK	EPI SCORE
OVERALL INDIA	180	18.90
Ecosystem Vitality	178	19.30
Ecosystem Services	97	25
Fisheries	42	24.50
Acidification	132	54.40
Health	178	12.50
Air Quality	179	7.80
Sanitation Drinking Water	139	19.50
Climate Policy	165	21.70
Climate Change	165	21.70