How Green is Your Country?

09/18/2007

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

Yale University researchers, working in conjunction with the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have recently released the latest Environmental Sustainability Index Report (www.yale.edu/esi). In this report 146 nations of the world are ranked in terms of 75 environmental measures such as maintaining clean air and water, limiting emission of greenhouse gases, and cooperating with international environmental efforts. Here are the top performing nations on this year’s list...

Finland
Norway
Uruguay
Sweden
Iceland
Canada
Switzerland
Guyana
Argentina
Austria
Brazil
Gabon
Australia
New Zealand
Latvia

Note: On this list, the United States ranked 45th.

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