Journal zogger's Journal: 2010 Environment Performance Index 2
A review of national rankings on environmental scores
2010 Environment Performance Index overview article
Main site for the study and report, a lot of large pdf downloads
A little from the official press release:
"Iceland's top-notch performance derives from its high scores on environmental public health, controlling greenhouse gas emissions, and reforestation. Other top performers include Switzerland, Costa Rica, Sweden, and Norway - all of which have made substantial investments in environmental infrastructure, pollution control, and policies designed to move toward long-term sustainability.
Occupying the bottom five positions are Togo, Angola, Mauritania, the Central African Republic, and Sierra Leone -impoverished countries that lack basic environmental amenities and policy capacity."
Iceland and reforestation? I am interested in this, having a preconceived notion of "no trees" there...I went and looked, found this. It used to have a lot of forests, and they got cut down and used. What happens is that trees grow really slowly there and the original viking guys who moved in were going on regular European time scales and just didn't realize how slow this really was. As a result, they lost 97% of their forests, and now have to carefully replant and nurture, to try and get some back. Looks to be a multi century job to do this to me, although it is apparently moving right along. My personal "cool place, could live there" index just went up for Iceland a big notch because of this.
Anyway, how did *your* nation do?
well shoot (Score:1)
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