A team consisting environmental experts from two America-based universities –Yale and Columbia University –measures 149 countries using 25 indicators tracked across six environmental policy categories. The result is: Europe countries lead the way on the top of list! Forbes calls the countries placed in the top list as the world’s cleanest countries.
The list shows that countries with better wealth have better ranks of environmental performance as well. The list shows that top-ranked countries have managed water and air pollution and environmental infrastructure in proper way. They also have adopted policy measures to mitigate the pollution effect.
In contrary, some countries placed in the bottom are countries with conflicts, corruption and poor budget for environmental infrastructure. Environmental public health seems to be neglected by the regime.
Here top 20 countries of the world’s cleanest countries:
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Norway
- Finland
- Costa Rica
- Austria
- New Zeland
- Latvia
- Colombia
- France
- Iceland
- Canada
- Germany
- UK
- Slovenia
- Lithuania
- Slovakia
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Croatia
What happen with US who is placed US in 39th? According to the team as in the media release:
Related terms“The United States’ performance indicates that the next administration must not ignore the ecosystem impacts of environmental as well as agricultural, energy and water management policies,” said Gus Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. “The EPI’s climate change metrics ranking the United States alongside India and China near the bottom of the world’s table are a national disgrace.”
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How France is higher than the UK and Germany I will never know. It’s a sh*t hole and I would argue Germany is the cleanest in Europe by far. This doesn’t seem to take into account the size of country.
How come Australia’s not in this ranking??? I’ve been to France just two months ago and I’m appalled by what I saw. The subway stinks of urine, and I even saw sh*t on the sidewalk while we were walking around Paris!
How about Japan? why it is not on the list?
I am surprised not to see UAE in the list.
it is really true that switzerland is the cleanest country of the world ^_^ my tita leave there
i can’t believe Singapore is not in the top 20
oman is cleanest one
Serbia is super clean
I live in Canada and hell no it aint clean!
It’s interesting that the US isn’t on the list, but also not surprising. They don’t have a lot of concern for the rest of the world, whereas most countries in Europe and Baltic States do.
Singapore and Oman
yes oman is very clean
Did you know that lebanon is known to have the world most cleanest water so put lebanon on that list.
how interesting, I hope that the US can clean up their act and I also find it interesting that 2 latin American countries are in the top 2 and the US no