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• Environment
• 05 / 13 / 2010

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HAVANA, Cuba, (acn) The 2010 edition of the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) has placed Cuba as the ninth cleanest country in the world out of 163 nations.

The study, carried out by the US universities of Columbia and Yale,ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both environmental, public health and ecosystem vitality.

These indicators provide a gauge at a national government scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals.

The study gave Cuba 78.1 points after it scored 84.35 under the chapter of `Environmental Health' and 71.91 under `Ecosystem
Vitality.'

The study places Iceland (93.5) on top of the list followed by Switzerland (89.1), Costa Rica (86.4), Sweden (86.0), Norway (81.1),Mauritius (80.6), France (78.2) and Austria (78.1).

The EPI's proximity-to-target methodology facilitates cross-country comparisons as well as analysis of how the global community is doing collectively on each particular policy issue.


Source: ACN