The table below lists the top 10 greenest countries (2010) as compiled from the Environmental Performance Index (EPI); a joint effort between Yale University, Columbia University and collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. We also present the current top 10 courtiers against rankings from 2008.
We’ve looked at some of large trading partners and their standing both in 2008 and 2010. Both the United States and China had in fact a more favourable EPI standing in 2008.
The 2010 Environmental Performance Index 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 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.
| Country | Ranking in 2008 | Ranking in 2010 | | |
| Iceland | 11 | 1 | | |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2 | | |
| Costa Rica | 5 | 3 | | |
| Sweden | 2 | 4 | | |
| Norway | 3 | 5 | | |
| Mauritius | 58 | 6 | | |
| France | 10 | 7 | | |
| Austria | 6 | 8 | | |
| Cuba | 41 | 9 | | |
| Colombia | 9 | 10 | | |
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| Australia | 46 | 51 | We export to | We import from |
| United States | 39 | 61 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Japan | 21 | 20 | ✔ | |
| China | 105 | 121 | ✔ | ✔ |
| India | 120 | 123 | ✔ | |
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Courtesy of http://epi.yale.edu
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