This dataverse contains an archive of Environmental Performance Index (EPI) reports and data sets. The Environmental Performance Index provides a data-driven summary of the state of sustainability around the world. The EPI utilizes a proximity-to-target methodology focused on a core set of environmental outcomes linked to policy goals.
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Aug 4, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
Wendling, Zach, 2026, "2024 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZLAHG0
The 2024 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) provides a data-driven summary of the state of sustainability around the world. Using 58 performance indicators across 11 issue categories, the EPI ranks 180 countries on climate change performance, environmental health, and ecosystem vitality. These indicators provide a gauge at a national scale of ho...
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Jan 9, 2026
This collection lists Environmental Performance Index reports and supporting datasets.
Jan 7, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
World Economic Forum - WEF - Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, and Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, 2000, "2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IAZB2C, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
The 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is an exploratory effort to construct an index that measures the ability of a nation's economy to achieve sustainable development, with the long term goal of finding a single indicator for environmental sustainability analagous to that of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The index covering 56...
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Jan 7, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, World Economic Forum - WEF, and Joint Research Centre - JRC - European Commission, 2010, "2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PP8Q4D, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 163 countries on environmental performance based on twenty-five indicators grouped within ten core policy categories addressing environmental health, air quality, water resource management, biodiversity and habitat, forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and climate change in the context of two broad...
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Jan 7, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, Yale Data-Driven Environmental Solutions Group - Yale University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, and World Economic Forum - WEF, 2016, "2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WCFHPJ, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on 20 performance indicators in the following 9 policy categories: health impacts, air quality, water and sanitation, water resources, agriculture, forests, fisheries, biodiversity and habitat, and climate and energy. These categories track performance and progress on two broad poli...
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Jan 7, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, World Economic Forum - WEF, and Joint Research Centre - JRC - European Commission, 2008, "2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YKX7DC, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
The 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) centers on two broad environmental protection objectives: (1) reducing environmental stresses on human health, and (2) promoting ecosystem vitality and sound natural resource management. Derived from a careful review of the environmental literature, these twin goals mirror the priorities expressed by p...
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Jan 7, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, Yale Data-Driven Environmental Solutions Group - Yale University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, and World Economic Forum - WEF, 2018, "2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1D8ZXB, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators in the following 10 issue categories: air quality, water and sanitation, heavy metals, biodiversity and habitat, forests, fisheries, climate and energy, air pollution, water resources, and agriculture. These categories track performance and progress on t...
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Jan 7, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
World Economic Forum - WEF - Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, and Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, 2001, "2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QGZE8Z, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
The 2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) utilizes a refined methodology based on the 2000 Pilot ESI effort, to construct an index covering 122 countries that measures the overall progress towards environmental sustainability. The index is a composite measure of the current status of a nation's environmental systems, pressures on those syst...
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Jan 7, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
World Economic Forum - WEF - Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, and Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, 2002, "2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VS9WWV, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
The 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) measures overall progress toward environmental sustainability for 142 countries based on environmental systems, stresses, human vulnerability, social and institutional capacity and global stewardship. The addition of a climate change indicator, reduction in number of capacity indicators, and an impr...
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Jan 7, 2026 - Environmental Performance Index Reports and Datasets
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, World Economic Forum - WEF, and Joint Research Centre - JRC - European Commission, 2012, "2012 Environmental Performance Index and Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RLNLVX, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
The 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 132 countries on 22 performance indicators in the following 10 policy categories: environmental burden of disease, water (effects on human health), air pollution (effects on human health), air pollution (ecosystem effects), water resources (ecosystem effects), biodiversity and habitat, forestry,...
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