Sri Lanka is ranked the highest in South Asia in the 2014 Environment
Performance Index which is the Global Environment Assessment Index.
Sri Lanka stands in sharp contrast to its regional neighbours India (155) Bangladesh (169) and Pakistan (148) in the Environment Performance Index, which is an exhaustive environmental impact assessment study made annually by the Yale University in the United States.
Sri Lanka is also ranked 69th in the world in the Environmental Performance Index. The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) identifies targets for several core environmental policy categories and measures how close countries come to meet them.
The EPI is a collaborative project between the Yale Centre for Environmental Law & Policy and the Centre for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University. It is supported by the World Economic Forum.
The EPI is arrived at in a process that calculates and aggregates 20 indicators that reflect environmental data at the national level of each country.
These indicators in turn are combined into nine issue categories, each of which fit in to one of two overarching objectives Environmental Health and Ecosystem vitality.
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