NZ 15th of 163 for environmental protection
Yale University has published its 2009 environmental protection index.
NZ is in 15th place, with a score of 73.4. Iceland is top at 93.5.
Sierra Leone is bottom at 163 with 32.1
The overall ranking is made up of 15 categories. NZ’s score per category is:
- Environmental Health 10th=
- Ecosystem Vitality 79th=
- Environmental Burden of Disease 21st=
- Air Pollution (effects on human) 3rd=
- Water (effects on human) 1st=
- Water (effects on ecosystem) 11th=
- Air Pollution (effects on ecosystems) 50th=
- Biodiversity and habitat 71st
- Forestry 1st=
- Fisheries 47th
- Agriculture 7th
- Climate Change 135th
- Environmental Burden of Disease 21st=
- Urban Particulates 1st=
- Indoor Air Pollution 1st=
- Access to Sanitation 1st=
- Access to Drinking Water 1st=
- Water Quality 2nd
- Water Scarcity 1st=
- Water Stress 54th
- Nitrous Oxide Emissions 123rd=
- Sulphur Dioxide Emissions 96th
- Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compound Emissions 106th=
- Ozone Exceedance 1st=
- Biome Protection 69th
- Critical Habitat Protection 14th
- Marine Protected Areas 69th
- Growing Stock Not Rated
- Forest Cover 1st=
- Marine Tropic Index 1st=
- Trawling Intensity 63rd
- Pesticide Regulation 1st=
- Agricultural Subsidies 109th=
- Agricultural Water Intensity 1st=
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions per capita 149th
- Industrial Carbon Intensity 66th
- Electricity Carbon Intensity 37th