by Tyler Durden
Monday, Mar 08, 2021 - 02:45 AM
From widening wealth disparity to the environmental ramifications of economic development - the growing focus on global sustainability is a clear sign of the times.
Research reveals that when a sustainable ethos is applied to policy and business, it typically bodes well for economies and people alike. By providing benchmarks for those decisions, indexes like Yale’s Environmental Performance Index (EPI) can be critical to measuring national sustainability efforts.
As Visual Capitalist s Therese Wood details, the below map interprets the EPI ranking of 180 economies across 32 environmental health indicators by narrowing in on the top 40 greenest countries.