Costa Rica has been ranked number three in the world in Yale Universities 2010 Environmental Performance Index Ranking.
Costa Rica has improved it’s EPI year on year improving from 5th in 2008 through to this years ranking of 3rd worldwide.
The Environmental Performance Index ranking is prepared yearly by Yale University and is based around Estimates Ecosystem Vitality, comprising climate change, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, biodiversity and habitat, water and air pollution and estimates of Environmental Health comprising environmental burden of disease, air pollution and water.
The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. These indicators provide a gauge at a national government scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals. The EPI’s proximity-to-target methodology facilitates cross-country comparisons as well as analysis of how the global community is doing collectively on each particular policy issue.
Costa Rica intends being Carbon Neutral as a nation by 2021 and they are on track to achieve this audacious goal.
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