State of the Planet

News from the Columbia Climate School

Environmental Performance Index

  • New Report Provides a Ranking of Sustainability Around the World

    New Report Provides a Ranking of Sustainability Around the World

    The 2024 Environmental Performance Index, produced by centers at Columbia Climate School and Yale, offers a scorecard for 180 countries based on their climate change mitigation, ecosystem vitality and environmental health.

  • How We Can Make Ports More Sustainable — And Why it Matters

    How We Can Make Ports More Sustainable — And Why it Matters

    An index created by a Sustainability Science student quantifies the major environmental impacts of shipping hubs.

  • How Well is the World Protecting Ecosystems and Human Health?

    How Well is the World Protecting Ecosystems and Human Health?

    The new global environmental report card is out. The 2016 Environmental Performance Index graded 180 countries on how well they are protecting human health and their ecosystems. While the world is making progress in some areas, it is seriously falling behind in others.

  • Data’s Power to Spur Environmental Progress

    Data’s Power to Spur Environmental Progress

    In January, 132 countries received their environmental report cards. The Environmental Performance Index has goaded leaders into action by letting them see their countries’ strengths and weaknesses compared to other countries.

  • Global Environment Index Downgrades U.S. and China

    Richer Countries Tend to Do Better—But Not Always

  • Global Environmental Scorecard Gives U.S. Low Rank

    Jan. 23, Davos, Switzerland – A new international ranking of environmental performance puts Switzerland at the top—and the United States 39th, last among the Group of 8 industrialized countries. The ranking, the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, was produced by a team from Yale University and the Columbia University Earth Institute’s Center for International Earth Science…

  • New Report Provides a Ranking of Sustainability Around the World

    New Report Provides a Ranking of Sustainability Around the World

    The 2024 Environmental Performance Index, produced by centers at Columbia Climate School and Yale, offers a scorecard for 180 countries based on their climate change mitigation, ecosystem vitality and environmental health.

  • How We Can Make Ports More Sustainable — And Why it Matters

    How We Can Make Ports More Sustainable — And Why it Matters

    An index created by a Sustainability Science student quantifies the major environmental impacts of shipping hubs.

  • How Well is the World Protecting Ecosystems and Human Health?

    How Well is the World Protecting Ecosystems and Human Health?

    The new global environmental report card is out. The 2016 Environmental Performance Index graded 180 countries on how well they are protecting human health and their ecosystems. While the world is making progress in some areas, it is seriously falling behind in others.

  • Data’s Power to Spur Environmental Progress

    Data’s Power to Spur Environmental Progress

    In January, 132 countries received their environmental report cards. The Environmental Performance Index has goaded leaders into action by letting them see their countries’ strengths and weaknesses compared to other countries.

  • Global Environment Index Downgrades U.S. and China

    Richer Countries Tend to Do Better—But Not Always

  • Global Environmental Scorecard Gives U.S. Low Rank

    Jan. 23, Davos, Switzerland – A new international ranking of environmental performance puts Switzerland at the top—and the United States 39th, last among the Group of 8 industrialized countries. The ranking, the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, was produced by a team from Yale University and the Columbia University Earth Institute’s Center for International Earth Science…