by AngelHsu | Mar 27, 2012 | Indices
The 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit is quickly approaching this June. To support the negotiations for a “Future We Want,” the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Center for International Earth Science Information Network have applied...
by AngelHsu | Feb 12, 2012 | Indices
My colleagues and I released the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) this past week at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Countries that ranked high rejoiced; those low on the list sought explanation. Nobody wants to look bad. The...
by AngelHsu | Jan 23, 2012 | Data, Indices, Policy
The 2012 Environmental Performance Index and the Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index (new!) will be released this Thursday, Jan. 26 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In addition to an update to the biennial rankings, we’ve included a new...
by AngelHsu | Dec 20, 2011 | China, Data, Indices
A report that my colleagues and I worked on for the last three years is finally available for public consumption. Below is the press release and a link to download the report. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A team of researchers jointly led by Yale University and Columbia...
by AngelHsu | Jul 1, 2011 | Indices, Presentations
In May I was invited to Latvia by the non-profit Homo Ecos to participate in a campaign to raise awareness of Latvia’s environment and its goal to become one of the greenest countries in the world. According to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, Latvia...
by AngelHsu | Apr 18, 2011 | China, Data, Indices
The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Siemens, released a first version of an Asian Green City Index last month, which compares environmental performance across 22 cities in Asia, five of which are in China (excluding Hong Kong). This work is based on similar...
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