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Posted on 07/11/2026 3:01:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Much of the world has made encouraging strides in reducing toxic problems such as water and air pollution that have long plagued communities. But there is still a widespread lack of progress among countries in dealing with the climate crisis, according to the latest edition of an influential environmental scorecard.
The biennial Yale University index again ranks Estonia as the best-performing of 177 assessed countries, after strong recent efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and protect its ecosystems. Luxembourg is second, and the UK is third, having moved up from fifth place in the 2024 index.
European countries dominate the top 20, with only Japan, in 16th, not situated in the continent. Australia is in 25th place, two places ahead of the US. Laos is the last-ranked nation, with the bottom three rounded out by India and Bangladesh.
The environmental performance index, which has been produced periodically by Yale since 2002 and provided to the Guardian ahead of wider release, assesses countries on 47 environmental indicators, ranging from their success in reducing air and water toxins to the sustainability of their forests, fisheries and farmlands. Actions to reduce pollutants such as pesticides and planet-heating gases are also noted.
Overall, the scorecard shows that there has been long-term progress in reducing various environmental hazards such as unsafe drinking water and the pollution that causes acid rain, although the world continues to dawdle in its response to the climate crisis, with few countries on track to meet their net zero emissions commitments. The gravity of the climate threat has been underlined with recent, deadly heatwaves in Europe and the US.
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There’s no score it’s all Crap
Toxic problems? Like the folks in europistan? “I’m proud to be an American, where I know I got A.C.”
Ha haaaaaas! Yeah, that’s why they’re frying to death over there.
There is no climate “crisis”. We do not subscribe to your religion and unlike you, we will not sacrifice our economy to Gaia.
Oh by the way, the US emits less carbon today than it did in 1980. Not that we particularly care.
The way Europe is responding to the ‘climate crisis’ is a problem.
That’s not the worst problem they face.
Lol, progress is having air conditioning and not sweating your ass off in your own home.
27th of 177? We need to be 177th! Screw the greenies.
When it comes to “Climate Change”, countries near the top are wasting huge amounts of money on a problem that doesn’t actually exist.
they’re reading the list upside down.
it doesn’t surprise me that so many European countries are down at the bottom of the list
Dangerous morons, the lot of them.
To get to the top of this list, countries have to arrest people for having air conditioning.
European countries dominate the top 20 -for suffering in miserable conditions.
What this list measures is the amount of stupidity in any given country.
Except for the Euroweenies BureaucRATS in Brussels. When temperatures spiked, the main EU building in Brussels shut down the air conditioning for floors 1-8. Above the 8th floor, the nice, cool air kept flowing.
Who is above the 8th floor, you ask? Of course! The EU Apparatchiks.
Those "lessers" in 1-8 don't "need" air conditioning.
They obviously didn’t include deaths from heat on their scorecard, unless that was considered a feature, not a bug.
Peasants! Time to handover more gelt to your haughty overlords or your world will end.
Good. I hope we fall farther.
europistanians.......or yoops
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